A fictional writer who lives in this city dresses up as Mephistopheles to attend a masked ball where he fails to seduce the banker Cohen’s wife Rachel. The classics teacher Herman falls asleep in Amsterdam and wakes up in this city in Cees Nooteboom’s (“sace NO-tuh-boam’s”) The Following Story. The grandfather of an aristocratic family from this capital city dies after learning that his two grandchildren are lovers. This city titles a novel in which a proofreader falls in love with his new supervisor after being reprimanded for adding the word “not” to a manuscript about a historical event. The hotel maid Lydia and the socialite Marcenda have affairs with a character in this city, who himself is a creation of an author from here who wrote a “factless autobiography” containing personas he called “heteronyms.” For 10 points, name this capital city where Ricardo Reis meets the ghost of Fernando Pessoa in a book by native son José Saramago. ■END■
ANSWER: Lisbon [or Lisboa; accept The History of the Siege of Lisbon or História do Cerco de Lisboa] (The first and third sentences refer to The Maias by Eça de Queirós. The fourth sentence references The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago.)
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