Packet 3: Tossup 13

A student in this novel struggles to hide his erection after reading a collection by Pierre Louÿs (“loo-EESE”). One of the narrators of this novel meets a girl who paints watercolors while listening to Billie Holiday records, and borrows The Song of Maldoror from her. A character in this novel recites “The Vampire” by Delmira Agustini while receiving a blowjob from a waitress. In this novel’s polyphonic (10[1])middle section, interviewees recall anecdotes like a man fighting a sword duel with a critic on a Spanish beach. (10[1])In this novel, the founders of the magazine Lee Harvey Oswald (10[2])leave Mexico (10[1])City with (10[1])the prostitute (10[1])Lupe. (10[2])At the end of this novel, poets (10[1])Ulises Lima (10[1])and Arturo (10[1])Belano (10[1])take on (-5[1])the title profession (-5[1])to search for (10[1])Cesárea (10[2])Tinajero, (10[1])the “mother (10[1])of visceral realism,” in the Sonoran Desert. For 10 points, name this 1998 novel by Roberto Bolaño. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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