Question
The narrator of a novel by this author praises the artistic isolation of a Sienese painter while looking at depictions of torture in the Louvre on the eve of the Sudetenland annexation. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who included meditations on the revolutionary aspects of artworks in his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. A play by this author is set in an asylum run by Coulmier.
ANSWER: Peter Weiss [or Peter Ulrich Weiss] (The play is Marat/Sade.)
[10h] In this novel, the apprentice Aulista questions if his master Perugino has lost interest in painting after he delays the completion of his Tezi Altarpiece. This novel’s interconnected chapters on aesthetics are numbered according to the Fibonacci sequence.
ANSWER: Seiobo There Below [or Seiobo járt odalent] (by László Krasznahorkai)
[10e] Gaspard Winckler attempts to forge a portrait by Antonello da Messina in Le Condottière, a posthumously published novel by Georges Perec, a member of this primarily French constrained writing movement.
ANSWER: Oulipo [or Workshop of Potential Literature; or Ouvroir de littérature potentielle]
<Literature - European Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 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 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |