Some Camus questions here which reminds me that I’d probably put “L’Étranger” in my top ten novels of all time. What that says about me I’m not sure I want to find out…
Questions
A real-time-strategy video game coming out in 2000 being based on it, which creatures are featured in a trilogy of sci-fi novels by French writer Bernard Werber?
ANTS
Dying at the young age of 24 in 1870 and having a limited corpus that includes “Poésies”, what is the nom de plume of French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse?
COMTE DE LAUTRÉAMONT
In which country was the French poet Comte de Lautréamont born during a civil war that lasted from 1839 to 1851? A siege of its capital was featured in Alexandre Dumas’ novel “The New Troy”.
URUGUAY
The Comte de Lautréamont only wrote two works, “Poésies” and which novel that features an immoral title character? The latter work had an influence on the surrealist movement.
LES CHANTS DE MALDOROR
In a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, what follows ‘A Throw of the Dice’? It is particularly noted for its unusual form of presentation.
WILL NEVER ABOLISH CHANCE
Albert Camus introduces what philosophy in his essay “The Myth of Sisyphus”, this holding among its views that there is irrationality throughout the universe?
PHILOSOPHY OF THE ABSURD
Its French title being a translation of an address in Rome, with which novel did 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Patrick Modiano take home the 1978 Prix Goncourt? Its two-word English title is quite different.
RUE DES BOUTIQUES OBSCURES / MISSING PERSON
In which ‘absurd’ Albert Camus play does a man return home to find his sister and mother don’t recognise him? He then decides to become a lodger with them under an assumed identity.
THE MISUNDERSTANDING / LE MALENTENDU
Seen as a sequel to “The Myth of Sisyphus”, in which Albert Camus book-length essay does he discuss figures such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Fyodor Dostoevsky?
THE REBEL
Featuring a contemporary history of the Hundred Years’ War up to 1400, for which work is the medieval French-language writer Jean Froissart best known? There are extant copies featuring fantastic illustrations from that era.
CHRONICLES
Associated with the Oulipo movement, Hervé Le Tellier won the Prix Goncourt for which novel, the first time the award was presented by Zoom because of the ongoing Covid pandemic? It features planes and passenngers than inexplicably become duplicated.
L’ANOMALIE / THE ANOMALY
Not set in China, “The Mandarins” is a work that follows French intellectuals from the end of World War II until the mid-1950s. It won the 1954 Prix Goncourt for which writer?
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Other than Puccini, which Naples-born composer has an opera called “La Bohème” based on the work of Henri Murger?
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
For what novel did André Malraux win the 1933 Prix Goncourt? Fred Zinnemann, Bernardo Bertolucci and Michael Cimino were all linked with a film adaptation of it but none completed their project.
MAN’S FATE / LA CONDITIONE HUMAINE
Forming a trilogy on revolutions in Asia with “The Conquerors” and “The Royal Navy”, André Malraux’s 1933 Prix Goncourt winning novel “Man’s Fate” is about the 1927 failed communist insurrection in which city?
SHANGHAI
Seen as a step towards the creation of Arsène Lupin, Fantômas and The Shadow, which 19th-century writer created the character Rocambole, in turn leading to the creation of the adjective ‘rocambolesque’?
PIERRE ALEXIS PONSON DU TERRAIL
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