Packet 1: Bonus 19
A book by one of these authors about the other is called a “cancer” whose “cargo of brilliant ideas” accompanies a “ghastly repetitiveness” in an essay from Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these authors, one of whom wrote a book on the other as “Actor and Martyr” that calls him a “Saint.” One of these authors described the other’s novel about a canonized drag queen as an “epic of masturbation.”
ANSWER: Jean-Paul Sartre AND Jean Genet [accept in either order] (The novel is Our Lady of the Flowers.)
[10e] Sartre’s book Saint Genet (“sahn zhuh-NAY”) is structured via one “conversion” and three of these events in Genet’s life. One of these events titles a novella about Gregor Samsa, who wakes up a “monstrous vermin.”
ANSWER: metamorphosis [accept métamorphose or Verwandlung; prompt on transformation or change] (The latter novel is The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.)
[10m] Sartre reads Genet’s novel titled for one of these people’s “Journal” as being inspired by his choice to become one. The archetype of the “gentleman” one of these people includes Maurice Leblanc’s character Arsène Lupin.
ANSWER: thief [or thieves; accept burglars or robbers; accept Journal du voleur]
<TM, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 20.63 | 100% | 72% | 34% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dielectrical Materialism | A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs | No Country for Old Quizzers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Vacuous Tortoise | Dour Straits | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |