Guadalupe Nettel’s short story “Ptosis” (“TOE-sis”) follows a photographer working in this city who becomes infatuated with an eyelid surgery patient. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city where a photographer in another story reimagines a scene of a boy being propositioned in a park while translating a treatise by José Norberto Allende.
ANSWER: Paris
[10m] That Parisian photographer appears in this author’s story “Blow-Up.” This Argentine-French author described a narrator’s obsession with the title creature’s “golden eyes” while visiting the Jardin des Plantes (“zhar-DAHN day plant”) in the story “Axolotl.”
ANSWER: Julio Cortázar [or Julio Florencio Cortázar]
[10e] The narrator describes vomiting rabbits and jumping out of a window in another Cortázar story framed as one of these works “to a Young Lady in Paris.” These works make up epistolary literature.
ANSWER: letters [accept “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris”]
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