Question
An author with this first name wrote a pioneering magical realist novel in which time stops as Hurtado and Julia escape from the bloodthirsty General Rosas. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this first name, shared by the author of Memories of the Future and an author with the surname Poniatowska who wrote an oral history of a massacre of Mexican students in The Night of Tlatelolco.
ANSWER: Elena [accept Elena Poniatowska; accept Elena Garro; accept Hélène Poniatowska]
[10e] Elena Poniatowska wrote a biography of this Mexican author, who was also the husband of Elena Garro. This author wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude.
ANSWER: Octavio Paz
[10h] The protagonists of a short story by Elena Garro wake up one day transformed into these animals. A man carries his wounded son, the bandit Ignacio, in a short story titled for a sound made by these animals.
ANSWER: dogs [accept perros] (The Garro story is “The day we were dogs,” and the second story is Juan Rulfo’s “Don’t you hear the dogs barking?”)
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Summary
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Data
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