Question
In a satirical poem by Estanislao del Campo, Anastasio the Chicken tries to recount an operatic retelling of this person, but accidentally reenacts his life instead. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this scholar from German legend, whose pact with the demon Mephistopheles is depicted in a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (“GUR-tuh”).
ANSWER: Faust [accept Heinrich Faust or Johann Georg Faust; accept Doctor Faustus; accept Fausto]
[10m] In Campo’s poem Fausto, Anastasio the Chicken is one of these people. One of these people kills a Black man in a knife fight in an epic poem by José Hernández.
ANSWER: gauchos (The epic poem is Martín Fierro.)
[10h] The jagunço (“zhah-GOON-soo”) Riobaldo (“hee-oo-BAO-doo”) makes a Faustian bargain in this supposedly untranslatable novel by João Guimarães Rosa (“zhoo-OW ghee-muh-RICE HO-zuh”), which ends after the death of the androgynous Diadorim (“jee-uh-doh-REEM”) in a knife fight.
ANSWER: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands [or Grande Sertão: Veredas]
<HG, World Literature>
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