Round 11: Tossup 3

One novel from this country in which a wealthy man creates jigsaw puzzles follows a “knight’s 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[1])A movement (15[1])from this country that explored constrained writing produced a novel that does not contain the letter (*) “e”. The phrase “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 was from, for 10 points, what country home to the author of The Stranger, Albert Camus? ■END■ (10[1])

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