Vertigo - 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell

Question

The first part of this novel, “Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet,” describes the wanderings of a Napoleonic soldier who, though never revealed, is better known as the author Stendhal. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this novel, sometimes grouped in a trilogy with The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. In the fourth part of this novel, the narrator visits his hometown, “W,” based on its author’s hometown of Wertach.

ANSWER: Vertigo [or Schwindel. Gefühle.]

[10m] Vertigo, The Emigrants, and The Rings of Saturn are by this German author, who also wrote Austerlitz.

ANSWER: W. G. Sebald [or Winfried Georg Sebald]

[10e] The third part of Vertigo describes a period in the life of this author through the lens of his story “The Hunter Gracchus.” This author, whom Sebald calls “Dr. K,” also wrote “In the Penal Colony.”

ANSWER: Franz Kafka

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	9	8.89	56%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	8.33	83%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


Cornell A	Binghamton	10	10	20
Cornell B	Cornell C	10	10	20
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	10