Question
While translating a treatise by José Norberto Allende, the narrator of this short story becomes overwhelmed by the slow stirring of a woman’s hands. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this short story in which the narrator does not realize until later that he had inadvertently rescued a young boy who was being propositioned by an older woman by the Seine, angering a previously unnoticed man in a grey hat.
ANSWER: “Blow-Up” [or “Las babas del diablo” or “Devil’s Spit” or similar translations]
[10e] “Blow-Up” is by this Argentine author, who included 99 “expendable” chapters in the novel Hopscotch.
ANSWER: Julio Cortázar (“cor-TAH-sar”) [or Julio Florencio Cortázar]
[10h] The narrator of a Cortázar story is disturbed by the photos he takes of local peasants during his visit to this author. This poet-priest, who founded an artists’ colony in the Solentiname Islands, wrote Zero Hour and Cosmic Canticle.
ANSWER: Ernesto Cardenal [or Ernesto Cardenal Martínez; prompt on Martínez]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |