Question
This author’s escape from Marseilles aboard the Capitaine Paul Lemerle inspired her novel about a concentration camp fugitive who adopts the identity of the dead writer Weidel to sail out of Vichy France. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this German author of Transit. Only the protagonist, Georg Heisler, manages not to be caught after escaping a concentration camp in this author’s novel The Seventh Cross.
ANSWER: Anna Seghers [or Anna Reiling; or Netty Reiling]
[10e] Among the other European novelists on the same voyage of the Paul Lemerle was Victor Serge who, like Seghers, settled in this home country of Carlos Fuentes.
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos]
[10m] Claude Lévi-Strauss described this author nervously pacing the ship’s deck in an early chapter of Tristes Tropiques. The line “beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all” ends this author’s novel Nadja.
ANSWER: André Breton
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