Question
Julian Barnes identified a “car-crash of nomenclature” in works in this form that translator Lucy Sante (“sahnt”) says made their author “invisibly famous.” For 10 points each:
[10h] What title quality is shared by a set of faits divers (“feh dee-VAIR”), or news stories, published in Le Matin (“luh mah-TAN”) that comprise a posthumous book of so-called “novels” by Félix Fénéon (“fay-nay-ON”)?
ANSWER: they have three lines [or equivalents such as three sentences; accept Novels in Three Lines; accept News in Three Lines or Nouvelles en trois lignes; prompt on short or flash fiction or micro-fiction; reject “tercets”]
[10m] Barnes notes that a fait divers story was the “seed” for this character. Jules de Gaultier (“duh gol-tee-YAY”) named the ability to imagine oneself as something they are not after this character, whose creator once said of her, “C’est moi (“seh MWAH”).”
ANSWER: Emma Bovary [or Emma Bovary; accept Madame Bovary; accept Bovarysme]
[10e] This author’s essay “Structure of the Fait-Divers” analyzes why they often reported murders. This critic posited “The Death of the Author.”
ANSWER: Roland Barthes (“bart”) [or Roland Gérard Barthes]
<European Literature>
Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 10 | 17.00 | 80% | 90% | 0% |
Data
| Illinois A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana | Florida | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | RIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto C | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |