Question
This occupation titles a 2022 Alejandro Zambra novel in which Vicente encourages the journalist Pru to actually interview some living examples. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this job of a character who slowly dies while hiccuping in the novella Monsieur Pain. In another novel, Father Urrieta meets a person with this job in Farewell’s garden.
ANSWER: a poet from Chile [accept author or writer in place of “poet”; accept Chilean Poet or Poeta chileno; prompt on diplomat from Chile with “What other occupation does the person have?”]
[10e] The narrator of Roberto Bolaño’s novel By Night in Chile meets this Chilean poet of Canto General [yenn-er-rall].
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]
[10m] In Antonio Skármeta’s novel Ardiente Paciencia, a character with this other job befriends Neruda in the years before Pinochet’s coup. In another novel, Oedipa Maas searches for a society of people with this job called Trystero.
ANSWER: postal worker [or postman, courier, mailman, letter carrier, or delivery man; accept The Postman or Il Postino] (The second novel is The Crying of Lot 49.)
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