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Rómulo Gallegos’ novel Canaima is in a subgenre of novela de la tierra set in this kind of place, which often featured idealistic protagonists overwhelmed by the forces of nature. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this kind of natural setting that also titles a set of Kipling stories about the “man-cub” Mowgli.
ANSWER: the jungle [accept the rainforest; accept la novela de la selva; accept The Jungle Book; prompt on the wilderness]
[10m] An unstable poet is “devoured” by the jungle in this country’s novel The Vortex. A character in a novel from this country named Rebeca starts a plague of insomnia and carries around a bag of her parents' bones.
ANSWER: Republic of Colombia (The second novel is One Hundred Years of Solitude.)
[10h] A father refuses to accept his boy’s death while hunting in “The Son,” one of this author’s many stories set in the jungle of Misiones. In a story by this author, four brothers behead their sister after seeing how dinner is prepared.
ANSWER: Horacio Quiroga [or Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza] (The second story is “The Decapitated Chicken.”)
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