In a novel titled for this type of character, a writer narrates his father’s resistance during the Dirty War after finding articles about the janitor Alberto José Burdisso’s murder. At the end of a novel, a girl leaps “into the void” after some of these characters invite her to the Big Midnight Feast. That novel titled for these characters is set on New Year’s Eve at an apartment complex construction site (10[1])and (10[1])is by César Aira (-5[1])(“SAY-sar EYE-rah”). These characters’ (-5[1])murmurs fill a town at “the very mouth of hell” in a (-5[1])novel in which the hostess (10[1])Eduviges (10[1])Dyada (10[2])(“ay-doo-VEE-hess dee-YAH-duh”), the cook Damiana Cisneros, and the deaf mule-driver (10[1])Abundio (10[1])Martínez are revealed (10[1])to be (-5[1])this (10[1])type (10[1])of character. (10[2])Juan (10[1])Preciado (10[2])visits a town (10[1])inhabited by these (10[1])characters (10[2])in Pedro Páramo. (10[1])For 10 points, Clara del Valle (“VAH-yay”) can communicate with what (10[1])beings (10[1])in an Isabel Allende (“ah-YEN-day”) novel partly titled for them? ■END■ (10[1])