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Postmodern Authors
YGK These Postmodern Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| Protagonist of Midnight’s Children born at the exact moment of Indian independence | Saleem Sinai |
| Physical feature of Saleem Sinai that grants him telepathic powers | Enormous nose |
| Member of "Midnight's Children" born with enormous knees | Shiva |
| Character in Midnight's Children known as a witch | Parvati-the-witch |
| Two actors who survive a plane explosion in The Satanic Verses | Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha |
| Mountaineer whose relationship with Gibreel is ruined by Saladin | Allie Cone |
| Iranian leader who issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| Salman Rushdie’s memoir about his years in hiding | Joseph Anton |
| Two authors who inspired Salman Rushdie’s pseudonym | Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov |
| Swiftly aging narrator of The Moor’s Last Sigh | Moraes Zogoiby |
| Rushdie novel loosely inspired by the legend of Orpheus | The Ground Beneath Her Feet |
| Author of Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace |
| Setting of Infinite Jest where years are named after corporate products | Future North America |
| Two primary settings of Infinite Jest | Ennet House and Enfield Tennis Academy |
| Student at the Enfield Tennis Academy in Infinite Jest | Hal Incandenza |
| Deadly film sought by terrorists in Infinite Jest | The Entertainment (or "Infinite Jest") |
| Quebeçois terrorist group in Infinite Jest | The Wheelchair Assassins |
| David Foster Wallace novel left unfinished at the time of his death | The Pale King |
| Author of White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
| Two main characters in White Teeth living in London | Samad Iqbal and Archie Jones |
| Genetically modified animal at the center of Marcus Chalfen’s project | FutureMouse |
| Muslim fundamentalist group joined by Millat in White Teeth | KEVIN |
| Zadie Smith novel set in northwest London | NW |
| Zadie Smith academic novel loosely based on E. M. Forster’s Howards End | On Beauty |
| Author of Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Protagonist of Lolita who is obsessed with Dolores Haze | Humbert Humbert |
| Dolores Haze’s mother whom Humbert marries | Charlotte |
| Playwright who writes the play Lolita is cast in at Beardsley | Clare Quilty |
| Nabokov novel consisting of a 999-line poem and a commentary | Pale Fire |
| Poet who writes the poem "Pale Fire" | John Shade |
| Scholar whose commentary in Pale Fire reveals his delusion as an exiled king | Charles Kinbote |
| Imaginary land Charles Kinbote believes he ruled as king | Zembla |
| Nabokov novel about an incestuous relationship | Ada, or Ardor |
| Condemned prisoner in Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading | Cincinnatus |
| Nabokov’s Russian-language novel about chess player Aleksandr Luzhin | The Defense |
| Scientific subject of interest discussed in Nabokov’s memoir Speak, Memory | Butterflies |
| Argentine author known for meta-fictional short stories | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Borges story featuring an infinite library of hexagonal rooms | The Library of Babel |
| Borges story where a 20th-century author reproduces Don Quixote | Pierre Menard |
| Imaginary realm created by a secret society in a Borges story | Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius |
| Point from which every other point in the universe can be perceived in a Borges story | The Aleph |
| Borges story featuring Dr. Yu Tsun and a metaphorical labyrinth | The Garden of Forking Paths |
| Author of Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Protagonist of Slaughterhouse-Five who is "unstuck in time" | Billy Pilgrim |
| German city firebombed during WWII in Slaughterhouse-Five | Dresden |
| Aliens who kidnap Billy Pilgrim and Montana Wildhack | Tralfamadorians |
| Repetitive phrase used in Slaughterhouse-Five after any mention of death | So it goes |
| Fictional religion in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle | Bokononism |
| Substance in Cat’s Cradle with the power to destroy all life on Earth | Ice-nine |
| Author of If on a winter’s night a traveler | Italo Calvino |
| Character "You" investigates book oddities with in Calvino's 1979 novel | Ludmilla |
| Deceitful translator in If on a winter’s night a traveler | Ermes Marana |
| Calvino novel framed as a conversation between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo | Invisible Cities |
| Ancient being who narrates Calvino’s Cosmicomics | Qfwfq |
| Author of Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Protagonist of Catch-22 stationed on the island of Pianosa | John Yossarian |
| Arch-capitalist mess officer in Catch-22 who runs M&M Enterprises | Milo Minderbinder |
| Character in Catch-22 promoted to a specific rank because of his name | Major Major Major |
| Antagonist in Catch-22 who continually raises the mission count | Colonel Cathcart |
| Author of White Noise | Don DeLillo |
| Professor of "Hitler Studies" who narrates White Noise | Jack Gladney |
| Chemical spill event that occurs in DeLillo’s White Noise | Airborne Toxic Event |
| Mysterious drug taken by Babette in White Noise | Dylar |
| DeLillo novel about Lee Harvey Oswald | Libra |
| Waste management executive in Underworld who buys a famous baseball | Nick Shay |
| Author of Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| Character in Gravity’s Rainbow whose sexual encounters predict V-2 rocket strikes | Tyrone Slothrop |
| Mysterious device sought after by characters in Gravity’s Rainbow | Schwärzgerat |
| Protagonist of The Crying of Lot 49 who investigates a mail delivery conflict | Oedipa Maas |
| Two rival mail delivery services in The Crying of Lot 49 | Thurn und Taxis and Trystero |
| Pynchon novel featuring the character Herbert Stencil | V. |
| Los Angeles private investigator in Pynchon’s Inherent Vice | Doc Sportello |
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