Question
The author’s acquaintance with Fulcanelli may have inspired a manifesto’s claim that this process, like surrealism, allows “man’s imagination to take a stunning revenge on all things.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this process that structures Ithell Colquhoun’s (“EYE-thull kuh-HOON’s”) surrealist novel The Goose of Hermogenes, which takes its chapter titles from Basil Valentine’s The Twelve Keys.
ANSWER: making the philosopher’s stone [or descriptions of making gold; or magnum opus; or great work; or chrysopoeia; prompt on transmutation; prompt on alchemy; prompt on hermeticism]
[10e] This author abandoned alchemical-hermeticism to pen an earnest “Ode to Charles Fourier” after writing the tarot-inspired novel Arcane 17. He also wrote the surrealist manifestos and the novel Nadja.
ANSWER: André Breton [or André Robert Breton]
[10m] This memoir by August Strindberg details his efforts to make gold from iron sulfate while holed up in Paris’s Hôtel Orfila. Like the Occult Diary, it covers his mental breakdown of the 1890s.
ANSWER: Inferno
<TH/JB, European Literature>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 10 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |