Round 13: Tossup 5

Obsessive passages set in these places describe how a woman becomes an undeceiving “plant” and make up 19 percent of her appearances according to a “Workout” by Anne Carson. As he goes to one of these places, a character thinks that his father resembles an engraving of Abraham by Benozzo Gozzoli in telling his mother to “go along with him.” In one of these places, a character habitually watches a cutout of Golo ride “at a jerky trot” to the translucent castle of Genevieve of Brabant. An asthmatic (10[1])author used one of these places lined with cork to write (10[1])The Captive and The Fugitive. (10[2])In one of these places, the narrator plays with a magic lantern (-5[2])and agonizingly (10[1]-5[1])awaits a kiss (10[1])from (10[1])his mother (10[4])in the (10[1])chapter “Combray.” (10[1])For 10 points, Swann’s Way begins (10[1])in what kind of place (-5[1])where Marcel (-5[1])suffers from childhood (-5[2])insomnia? (10[1])■END■ (10[8]0[1])

ANSWER: bedrooms [or bedchamber; prompt on rooms or chamber; prompt on country houses or apartments] (The narrator’s descriptions of Albertine’s sleep in The Captive are highlighted in Anne Carson’s “Albertine Workout.”)
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