Question
A play by this author includes stage directions stating that the title object “walks slowly around, circulating widely.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who used nonsense dialogue like “Statues, jewelry, grilled meats” and “Tangerine and white of Spain” in a play featuring the characters Eye, Neck, Mouth, Nose and Ear.
ANSWER: Tristan Tzara [or Samuel Rosenstock] (The play is The Gas Heart.)
[10e] Tristan Tzara is a French-language author from Romania just like this playwright of Rhinoceros.
ANSWER: Eugène Ionesco [or Eugen Ionescu]
[10m] In Ionesco’s play The Killer, this recurring character meets the killer in the “radiant city.” This character shouts “I’m not capitulating!” at the end of Rhinoceros.
ANSWER: Bérenger (“bear-ahn-zhay”)
<SP, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
Data
| RIT | Columbia Ly-α | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell Wind | Cornell Earth | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |