Packet 10: Tossup 9

One novel from this country in which a wealthy man creates jigsaw puzzles follows (15[1])a “knight’s (15[1])tour” (15[1])structure. (15[2])In a novel from this (15[1])country, a boy watches (-5[1])children’s cartoons projected from a “magic lantern” and waits for his mother to kiss him (15[1])goodnight. (15[2])A movement (15[1])from this country that explored constrained (15[2])writing produced a novel (15[1])that does not (15[1])contain (15[1])the letter (15[1])(*) “e”. (10[1])The phrase (10[2])“for a long time, (-5[1])I went to bed early” opens a novel from this country that sees the narrator remember his childhood after eating a tea-soaked madeleine. Oulipo author Georges Perec (10[1])was from, for 10 points, what country home to the author of The Stranger, Albert Camus? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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