Packet 10: Tossup 4

A woman in this novel explains that her life’s “good dream,” in which she had an infant son, gave way to a “bad dream” in which an angel told her that her son never existed. As a young man, a character in this novel sits in an outhouse and remembers flying kites with a miner’s daughter. (-5[1])Midway through this novel, its narrator leaves the stifling house of two incestuous siblings in the middle (15[1])of the night, only to stop breathing (-5[1])and be (*) buried with the beggar Dorotea. This novel (10[1])fulfills (-5[1])the point (10[1])of a writer’s life, to write one great book, according to a preface by Susan Sontag. This novel begins with its narrator promising his dying mother that he will find his father, a land (-5[1])baron who starved (10[2])townsfolk of Comala. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points (10[4])each, (10[1]-5[1])Juan (10[1])Preciado (10[1])visits a town (10[1])inhabited (10[1])by (10[1])ghosts in what novel (10[2])by Juan Rulfo? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[4])

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