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In a foreword, an author commented that “the whole tragedy seems much greater” if this character is sixty-two when she marries a man who then kills her father. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character, who is lowered into a mine shaft as a child to search for gold, but only finds a skeleton. This woman later goes mad upon the death of her husband Florencio before marrying the title character of a novel set in Mexico.
ANSWER: Susana San Juan [prompt on San Juan]
[10m] Susana San Juan marries the title character of this novel, in which Juan Preciado meets the ghostly inhabitants of Comala while searching for his father.
ANSWER: Pedro Páramo
[10e] This author, who wrote a foreword to Pedro Páramo, admitted to memorizing much of the novel and buying dozens of copies for his friends. Pedro Páramo partly inspired this author’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
ANSWER: Gabriel García Márquez [accept Gabo; prompt on García or Márquez]
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