Question
While working at a gated community named for this location, the gardener Polo helps the obese Franco concoct a plot to seduce his neighbor, who is married to a famous television star. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this location. A 1966 “neo-baroque” novel titled for this location, stylistically inspired by Luis de Góngora, includes a dialogue in which the college students Fronesis and Foción debate the origins of homosexuality.
ANSWER: paradise [or paraíso; accept Paradiso; accept Páradais] (Páradais was written by Fernanda Melchor.)
[10e] José Lezama Lima’s Paradiso is a semi-autobiographical account of his upbringing in this country. Though born in Switzerland, magical realist author Alejo Carpentier grew up and primarily worked in this country.
ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba]
[10m] Like Paradiso, a novel titled after this author’s Inferno in English translation references the Divine Comedy. The dead writer Bustrófedon puns on the names of literary figures in a novel by this author titled for a Spanish tongue twister, Three Trapped Tigers.
ANSWER: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU ReFantazio | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Notre Dame | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU | hawk two of | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | BHSU Rebirth | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Clown Senpais | Northeast by Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Clown Squad | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |