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Question

Gabriel García Márquez began writing fiction after an opening line by this author showed him that people were “allowed to write things like that.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this author who is described as creating “his own precursors” in one essay. Max Brod published the works of this author, including a novella in which Gregor Samsa awakens after the title transformation.

ANSWER: Franz Kafka

[10m] This author of “Kafka and his Precursors” translated several works by Kafka into Spanish. In a short story by this author, a man dreams into existence a son in the ruins and later learns that he too was dreamed into existence.

ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges

[10h] In this Kafka story, the mere harsh words of a father compels his son Georg to drown himself in a river.

ANSWER: “The Judgment”

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Canada	Main Site	Y	10	19.00	100%	70%	20%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	21.67	83%	67%	67%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	15.83	100%	50%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	23.75	100%	88%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%

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Bowdoin A	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin B	Brandeis B	0	0	0	0
Brown	Harvard B	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Dartmouth B	10	10	10	30
MIT	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10	20
Yale	Brandeis A	10	10	10	30