Round 6: Tossup 8

While filming an adaptation of this novel in Zagreb, a director fell in love with a 20-year-old actress he gave the stage name “Oja Kodar” (“OH-yuh KOH-dar”). A pinscreen was used to animate the opening of that adaptation of this novel, whose “logic” (15[1])is said by the director’s narration to be that “of a dream … a nightmare.” In a scene inspired by this novel, pink light shines on a man who says “tonight is Mohawk night.” The abandoned Gare d’Orsay (“gahr dor-SAY”) was the set of many stylized interiors of an adaptation of this novel, like a wooden shack with gaps that a mob of girls peer through and a grid of hundreds of (*) desks with typewriters. That 1962 black-and-white adaptation of this novel exploited its star’s homosexuality (10[1])by pairing him opposite Romy Schneider and Jeanne Moreau (“zhun mo-ROH”). Paul’s dialogue with the bouncer in After Hours is inspired by a passage from this novel about a man who is refused entry through a door for years. For 10 points, Orson Welles’s adaptation of what novel stars Anthony Perkins as Joseph K? ■END■

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary