Over a glass of Colares Chita, this man cites Kafka to illustrate how “cowardice produced some of the bravest writing of the century.” A doctor stalks a man in a skeleton costume at Carnival after mistaking him for this man. A roaming author awaits a spirit of this man called the Guest in Antonio Tabucchi’s (“tah-BOO-kee’s”) novel Requiem: (10[1])A (-5[2])Hallucination. This man uses a womb-like period of nine months “to achieve total oblivion” in a novel that ends with the protagonist donning a jacket and following him into a cemetery. (-5[1])A man created (-5[1])by (10[1])this author (10[2])sleeps (10[1])with the hotel (10[1])maid Lydia and reads Herbert Quain’s (10[1])The God of the Labyrinth (-5[2])aboard (-5[1])an ocean liner on his return from (-5[1])Brazil to a city where he converses with the ghost of this poet. (-5[1])For 10 points, José Saramago’s The Year of the Death (10[1])of Ricardo (10[2])Reis (10[2])depicts (10[2])a “heteronym” of what (10[1])Portuguese poet? (10[1])■END■ (10[8])