Question

An author from this country was acquitted in a blasphemy trial for depicting himself in one of his novels having sex with God incarnated as a donkey. A character reflects on the Eucharist while watching a Japanese bowl being rotated in a novel from this country titled Rituals. In a novel set in this country, a character claims that he was elected pope in jail while imprisoned with Du Guesclin (“doo gess-CLAHN”). A narrator living in this country recounts that during his life in (*) Paris, he was punched in the ear by a motorcyclist while stuck in traffic. In a novel set in this country, a character who regrets ignoring a woman (-5[1])who jumped off a bridge (10[1])reveals that due to his affiliation with the bar Mexico City, he owns the stolen panel painting The Just Judges. For 10 points, (10[1])Jean-Baptiste Clamence compares the canals of what country’s capital to the circles of Hell in Albert Camus’ The Fall? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: The Netherlands [or Nederland; anti-prompt on Holland] (The first sentence is Gerard Reve’s Nearer to Thee. Rituals is by Cees Nooteboom.)
<Literature - European Literature - Long Fiction>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Hari ParameswaranCry of the Common LoonStanford+109-5
Stephen LiuWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs11410
Kevin Yenumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haikuBerkeley13710
Tim MorrisonStanford+Cry of the Common Loon1570

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y367%0%33%125.50
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