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In a story by this author, a man anxious about getting married has a dream in which a shopkeeper sells him a hot new type of fabric called “wife.” A fictional version of this author gives the name “Caracas” to an inanimate object that manages to contract syphilis. This writer marries a humanoid balloon in a story titled (15[1])for his “wife,” by Tommaso Landolfi. This author wrote a story in which a painter buys opium from a Persian, gets high, proposes marriage to a (*) prostitute, (10[1])and finally slits his throat. The dogs Meggy and Fidel are overheard gossiping in another story by this author, in which the impending accession of Isabella II inspires Poprishchkin (poe-PRISH-kin) to declare himself king of Spain. For 10 points, name this Ukrainian author of fantastical stories like “Nevsky Prospect” and “Diary of a Madman.” ■END■

ANSWER: Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol (The story in the lead-in is “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his Aunt.”)
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