Round 9: 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. Midway through this novel, its narrator leaves the stifling house of two incestuous siblings in the middle of the night, only to stop breathing and be (*) buried with the beggar Dorotea. This novel fulfills the point 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 baron who starved townsfolk of Comala. (10[1])For 10 points each, (10[1])Juan (10[1])Preciado visits a town (10[1])inhabited by ghosts in what novel by Juan Rulfo? ■END■

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