Kalaghoda 2012 - Prelims_dry

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Prelims 17

Ismat Chughtai·s novel Ajeeb Aadmi (A Very Strange Man) isabout a suicidal actor-director Dharam Dev, his doomed passionfor his discovery Zarina Jamaal, a dancer from Madras whom hegrooms into a great actress, and Dev·s playback-singer wifeMangala. W hat three-word phrase best describes such a novel?



Prelims 17 - Answer

R oman à clef , French for "novel with a key", is form of literatureabout real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction, popularisedby Madeleine de Scudery in the17 th Century through her thinly

veiled stories featuring politicaland public figures.

Chughtai·s novel is about GuruDutt, W aheeda R ehman &Geeta Dutt.



Prelims 18

On 11 March 1963, Col. Jean-MarieBastien-Thiry became the last person in France to be executed by firing squad. The crime of which he

was convicted forms the prologue of a work of fiction. The rest of thenovel is a fictional account of eventsthat aimed to achieve what he had

failed to do.Name the novel.



Prelims 18 - Answer

H e attempted and failed toassassinate Charles de Gaulle. W hat follows is the plot of Frederick Forsyth·s The Day of the Jackal .



Prelims 19

This is a file photo of a bureaucrat, shot in a setting which, several years later, became the milieu of his debut novel. Identify him .



Prelims 19

This is a file photo of an acclaimed debut novelist shot in a setting which became the milieu of his book. Identify him .



Prelims 19 - Answer

Jamil Ahmad , author of The W andering Falcon



Prelims 20

Identify both men .



Prelims 20

Identify both men .



Prelims 20 - Answer

Lawrence and Gerald Durrell , brothers and writers.



Prelims 21

A Bench by the R oad is a 2006 project established in honour of a litterateur's 75 th birthday. The project·s name is inspired from thenovelist·s remarks in an 1989 interview:

"There is no place you or I can go, to think about or not think about,to summon the presences of, or recollect the absences of slaves «There is no suitable memorial, or plaque, or wreath, or wall, orpark, or skyscraper lobby. There's no 300-foot tower, there's nosmall bench by the road. There is not even a tree scored, an initialthat I can visit or you can visit in Charleston or Savannah or New

York or Providence or better still on the banks of the Mississippi. And because such a place doesn't exist « the book had to.´

Name the novelist, and the book .



Prelims 21

A Bench by the R oad is a 2006 project consisting of roadsidebenches in honour of a litterateur's 75 th birthday. The project·sname is inspired from the novelist·s remarks in an 1989 interview:

"There is no place you or I can go, to think about or not think about,to summon the presences of, or recollect the absences of slaves «There is no suitable memorial, or plaque, or wreath, or wall, orpark, or skyscraper lobby. There's no 300-foot tower, there's nosmall bench by the road. There is not even a tree scored, an initialthat I can visit or you can visit in Charleston or Savannah or New

York or Providence or better still on the banks of the Mississippi. And because such a place doesn't exist « the book had to.´

Name the novelist, and the book .



Prelims 21 - Answer

Toni Morrison, Beloved



Prelims 22

David Peterson, a language expert, explains his process forcreating a new language based on a small sample of words present in a series of books for a warrior tribe whose world revolvesaround their horses. W hat language was he building for use in thetelevision adaptation of the same series of books?

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Prelims 22 - Answer

Dothraki , for H BO·s adaptation of George R . R . Martin·s TheGame of Thrones, the first book in his A Song of Ice and Fireseries.



Prelims 23

Identify the writer of the poem heard in this classic Levi·s ´YourLife«µ commercial.

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emoved)



Prelims 23 - Answer

Charles Bukowski . The poem is The Laughing H eart.



Prelims 24

Name the character and the poem from this still

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Prelims 24

Name the character and the poem .



Prelims 24 - Answer

Allen Ginsberg , played by James Franco, reciting H owl in the filmof the same name.



Prelims 25

Name the Nobel Prize winner who wrote these lines based on thephotograph? The reader is reading from a translation of theoriginal poem.

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Prelims 25

Name the Nobel Prize winner who wrote these lines? The readeris reading from a translation of the original poem.



Prelims 25 - Answer

W islawa Szymborska ² Photograph from September 11,translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislav Baranczak.

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