Round 10: Tossup 9

One novel from this country in which a wealthy man creates jigsaw puzzles follows a “knight’s tour” structure. In a novel from this country, a boy watches children’s cartoons projected from a “magic lantern” and waits for his mother to kiss him goodnight. (15[1])A movement from this country that explored constrained (15[1])writing produced a novel that does not (15[1])contain the letter (*) “e”. (10[1])The phrase (10[1])“for a long time, 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■

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary