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A character named for this figure becomes a manager of the Le Bon Kaffé company after ironically leading a workers’ demonstration against it. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this man, the inspiration for a rival of Pascal who leaves Martinique in a 2021 novel. In a short story, a writer claims that this man was a divine manifestation of mortality before dying of an aneurysm in Malmö.
ANSWER: Judas Iscariot [accept Judas Eluthère; accept “Three Versions of Judas”] (The story is “Three Versions of Judas” by Jorge Luis Borges.)
[10m] This author paralleled Judas’s betrayal of Jesus with Judas’s betrayal of Pascal in her novel The Gospel According to the New World. The title character shares a jail cell with Hester Prynne in this Guadeloupean author’s novel I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.
ANSWER: Maryse Condé [accept Maryse Boucolon]
[10e] Condé’s novel The Migration of Hearts adapted aspects of the plot of this novel to a Guadeloupean setting. The character of Razyé in Condé’s novel parallels the arc of Heathcliff in this novel by Emily Brontё.
ANSWER: Wuthering Heights (The English translation of the Condé novel is called Windward Heights.)
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