Tossup
Over a glass of Colares Chita, this man cites Kafka to illustrate how “cowardice produced some of the bravest writing of the century.” A doctor stalks a man in a skeleton costume at Carnival after mistaking him for this man. A roaming author awaits a spirit of this man called the Guest in Antonio Tabucchi’s (“tah-BOO-kee’s”) novel Requiem: A Hallucination. This man uses a womb-like period of nine months “to achieve total oblivion” in a novel that ends with the protagonist donning a jacket and following him into a cemetery. A man created by this author sleeps with the hotel maid Lydia and reads Herbert Quain’s The God of the Labyrinth aboard an ocean liner on his return from Brazil to a city where he converses with the ghost of this poet. For 10 points, José Saramago’s The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis depicts a “heteronym” of what Portuguese poet? ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 130.71 |