Question

In one work, after mocking the idea of coherence as an “old, old story,” this character quips to an unnamed interlocutor, “You are a nonentity whom I'm filling up with wine.” In a story, this character claims that, if it were commanded that they be helped, “all would lie in their beds, the blanket pulled over their heads, the entire planet a hostel” to a man who had earlier insisted “I’m not laughing.” A “Fragment” on this character extends a story in which their arrival is heralded by a talking (*) dove the size (10[1])of a rooster, (10[1])collected in The Great Wall of China. (-5[1])This character dies after falling off a cliff while chasing a chamois in the Black Forest. This character relates how, because their boatswain (10[1])(“BOH-sun”) made a “steering error,” they are condemned to forever (10[1])“ply the earthly waters” (-5[1])in a conversation with Salvatore, the Burgomaster of Riva. For 10 points, (10[1])name this title “Hunter” of a Kafka story. ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Gracchus [accept “The Hunter Gracchus” or “Der Jäger Gracchus”; accept “The Hunter Gracchus: a Fragment”, “Fragment of ‘The Hunter Gracchus’”, “Der Jäger Gracchus: Ein Fragment”, or “Fragment zum ‘Jäger Gracchus’”]
<Tim Morrison, European Literature>
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Summary

2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y9100%0%22%136.89

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matt BollingerTeam Name Think DetailThe Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub9210
Jordan BrownsteinThe Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host ClubDon't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too9510
William GoldenRomanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grillremembrance of lost time102-5
Halle FriedmanIn Search of Things Pastwave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp12510
Jerry VinokurovTeach Us to Outgrow Our LadnessBHSU13410
Charles HangHang et al., Robert BrowningThe anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.)138-5
John LawrenceCurse you, Periplus the Platypus!Evans Hall destruction awaiters15010
Rahul KeyalThe anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.)Hang et al., Robert Browning15910
Jim FanQuasicrystal SilenceI prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble15910
Anderson Wangremembrance of lost timeRomanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill15910
Jason ChengI would prefer not toThe Canadians15910