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 Cuban author titled for a Spanish tongue twister.
ANSWER: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (The novel is Three Trapped Tigers.)
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
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| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |