Question
The protagonist of a novel by this author learns that his lover Alejandra keeps the decapitated head of her criollo ancestor in a chest. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novelist and physicist, the author of On Heroes and Tombs. Another novel by this author begins, “I am the painter who killed Maria Iribarne.”
ANSWER: Ernesto Sabato (The other novel is El Túnel.)
[10e] In On Heroes and Tombs, Alejandra’s father Fernando writes a conspiratorial “report” claiming that people with this affliction control the world. This affliction affected Jorge Luis Borges and John Milton.
ANSWER: blindness
[10m] In Sabato’s novel El Túnel, the protagonist cuckolds a blind man with this surname. In a novel by an author with this surname, a clairvoyant woman recovers the decapitated head of her mother Nívea.
ANSWER: Allende [accept Isabel Angelica Allende Llona] (The novel is House of the Spirits.)
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
Data
| SGV Ventures | ALCU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Anderson et al. | U[C]SD | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Jason et al. | Claremont | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |