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This author referenced his oft-quoted claim that “nothing goes and everything matters” for Eastern Bloc writers in an interview with Ivan Klíma collected in the book Shop Talk. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who revitalized writers like Bruno Schulz in the 1970s and ’80s as general editor of the Penguin imprint “Writers from the Other Europe.”
ANSWER: Philip Roth [or Philip Milton Roth]
[10m] Roth was introduced to Schulz by this avid fan of him. Saul Bellow translated a story by this Nobel laureate in which the Spirit of Evil tells the title man that there is no God, only a “thick mire,” after his wife admits to adultery on her deathbed.
ANSWER: Isaac Bashevis Singer [or Icek Hersz Zynger] (The story is “Gimpel the Fool.”)
[10e] Roth’s interview with Klíma discusses this system, which Roth fictionalized in The Prague Orgy. Doctor Zhivago was circulated via this practice of underground self-publishing.
ANSWER: samizdat [accept tamizdat]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaToronto B001010E
Chicago BPenn State001010E
Columbia BArizona State0000
Georgia TechNorth Carolina B0101020ME
Illinois ARIT0101020ME
Iowa StateFlorida1001020HE
MITIllinois B0101020ME
MarylandVanderbilt001010E
MichiganChicago A0101020ME
MinnesotaColumbia A0101020ME
NorthwesternJohns Hopkins001010E
Ohio StateGeorgia State0101020ME
OttawaNorth Carolina A001010E
RutgersToronto C0000
StanfordUCF0101020ME
UC Berkeley AWaterloo B001010E
Virginia TechUC Berkeley B0000
WUSTL ACornell B0101020ME
WUSTL BWinona State0000
Waterloo ACornell A0101020ME
YaleIndiana0101020ME

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2113.3381%48%5%