Question
This author recalled originally titling a novel “The Planet of Inexperience” in a section on “inexperience” in the essay “Sixty-Three Words.” It’s not Henry James, but this author remarked on a tendency to write seven-section novels in the 1986 essay collection The Art of the Novel; such novels include one with the repeated section titles “Lost Letters” and “The Angels.” A novel by this author opens by discussing the French Revolution’s possible (*) eternal return. In that novel, a “war on kitsch” is declared by a painter who sometimes wears a bowler hat, Sabina. This author also wrote about Tomáš (“TOE-mash”) and Tereza’s experience of the Prague Spring. For 10 points, name this author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. ■END■
Summary
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Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | University Lab | 45 | 20 |
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Dominic Apap | Detroit Catholic Central B | Woodland | 63 | 20 |
Kaiwen Xiao | Irvington A | Barrington B | 78 | 0 |
Nick Murray | Detroit Catholic Central A | St. Mark's | 80 | 10 |
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Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Hinsdale Central | 84 | 10 |
Arthur Gayden | Detroit Country Day | Johns Creek A | 85 | 10 |
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Kyan van Beek | Lake Highland | Maggie Walker C | 122 | 10 |
Omar Hamid | Dunbar | Winston Churchill B | 124 | 10 |
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Joseph Harrison | Detroit Catholic Central C | Hunter B | 125 | 10 |
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