Round 11: Tossup 3

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

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