Packet 5: Tossup 15

Reflecting on The First Man by Camus leads this writer to propose a “conspiracy of orphans” in the essay “Impertinence.” Geoff Dyer edited the Selected Essays of this writer, who framed a book as the missing sketchbook of Spinoza. This resident of the alpine village of Quincy (“kan-SEE”) argued that zoos “cannot but disappoint” because their animals cannot look back at us. The epigraph to The God of Small Things is a sentence by this (10[1])European about a “single story.” The collections Confabulations and About Looking are by this writer, who gave the Black Panthers half of the Booker money (10[1])he won for (10[1])his retelling (10[1])of Don Juan titled (10[1])G. (10[4])A book of (10[1])art criticism by this writer includes three essays made entirely of images and, before (10[2])Laura Mulvey, discussed the “male gaze.” (10[1])For 10 points, what essayist adapted his 1972 BBC series (10[1])into the (10[1])book Ways of (10[1])Seeing? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[3])

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