The narrator of a novel by this author suggests that his neighbor sponsored a midwife so that townspeople would stop “borrowing” the man’s horse out of spite. This author (15[1])may have intentionally left unfinished a novel that concludes as the protagonist “caught hold of a fille de chambre’s...end of Vol. II.” A character created by this author explains freedom by drawing a wiggly line in the air with his walking stick, which Balzac reproduced in the epigraph to (*) The Wild Ass’s Skin. A novel by this author uses a completely black page to represent the death of a character (10[1]-5[1])who also travels through France and Italy in a satirical “sentimental journey” by this (10[1])author. The protagonist believes his life to be altered after Dr. Slop’s forceps flatten his nose in a novel by this author that features his alter ego Parson Yorick. For 10 points, name this author of Tristram Shandy. ■END■ (10[2])