Question
In a novel by this author, the dictatorial mystic Warlock prevents a communist uprising and arrests Dona Haydee’s husband Pericles. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this contemporary Honduran author of Tyrant Memory. An alcoholic attempts to edit an 1100-page report on a government massacre in this author’s stream-of-consciousness novel Senselessness.
ANSWER: Horacio Castellanos Moya [prompt on Castellanos or Moya]
[10e] Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness is set during a historic civil war in this country. Elizabeth Burgos transcribed an oral memoir by Rigoberta Menchú, an author from this home country of Miguel Ángel Asturias.
ANSWER: Guatemala [or Republic of Guatemala; or República de Guatemala]
[10m] Castellanos Moya’s novel Revulsion is subtitled for this Austrian author “in San Salvador.” The whiny narrator of Revulsion parodies the incessantly ranting narrator of this author’s novel set at an “artistic dinner,” Woodcutters.
ANSWER: Thomas Bernhard [or Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard]
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