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This novel’s protagonist works with the director Rheingold on an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey in Capri. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel, first published in English as A Ghost at Noon, which NYRB Classics reissued alongside its author’s Boredom. In this novel, the screenwriter Riccardo tries to understand why his wife Emilia has ceased to love him.
ANSWER: Contempt [or Il disprezzo]
[10m] Susan Sontag called the author of Contempt, Alberto Moravia, a “second-rater,” instead preferring this screenwriter. A jealous narrator observes the infidelity of his wife “A” in a nouveau roman by this author.
ANSWER: Alain Robbe-Grillet (“rob gree-YAY”) (The novel is Jealousy.)
[10e] Moravia’s compatriot Pier Paolo Pasolini, who occasionally adapted his own novels to film, is best known for his loose retelling of this French libertine’s transgressive novel The 120 Days of Sodom.
ANSWER: Marquis de Sade (“sahd”) [or Donatien Alphonse François de Sade]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateGeorgia State001010E
Chicago AUC Berkeley A0101020ME
Columbia BMichigan001010E
Georgia TechVirginia Tech001010E
Illinois ANorth Carolina A0101020ME
Illinois BMaryland001010E
IndianaWaterloo A0101020ME
Iowa StateToronto B10101030HME
Johns HopkinsChicago B001010E
MITCornell A001010E
NYULSE0101020ME
NorthwesternToronto A001010E
Ohio StateVirginia001010E
OttawaFlorida0000
Penn StateUC Berkeley B10101030HME
RITVanderbilt001010E
StanfordRutgers1001020HE
TexasMinnesota001010E
Toronto CHarvard001010E
UCFNorth Carolina B001010E
WUSTL AColumbia A001010E
Waterloo BWUSTL B0101020ME
Winona StateCornell B001010E
YaleBritish Columbia0101020ME

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2414.1796%33%13%