Question
The twentieth chapter of a novel titled for this place reads in its entirety, “I lay at your feet like a rug, Alya!” For 10 points each:
[10h] What place titles an epistolary novel written in exile by Viktor Shklovsky? That novel is repeatedly quoted in Dubravka Ugrešić’s (“oo-GRAY-sheech’s”) The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, which opens by comparing its structure to the objects found in the stomach of Roland, a dead inhabitant of this place.
ANSWER: Berlin Zoo [or Berlin Zoological Garden; or Zoologischer Garten Berlin; prompt on zoo by asking “in what city?”]
[10m] Shklovsky also wrote about Berlin in a memoir titled for a novel by this author, whom he credited with the “most typical novel in world literature.” Diderot lifted passages from a novel by this author for Jacques the Fatalist.
ANSWER: Laurence Sterne (The memoir is Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917–1922. The “most typical novel” is Tristram Shandy.)
[10e] Ugrešić’s compatriot Daša Drndić (“DAH-sha DURN-ditch”) used the motif of a zoo’s rhino enclosure in Doppelgänger, one of her novels that’s been compared to this author’s French-language novels like Molloy.
ANSWER: Samuel Beckett [or Samuel Barclay Beckett]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
Data
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | var merchants | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Les Missourables | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| BHSU B | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | We Need New Names | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |