This author’s theories of “two-track time” and “branch lines of time” are analyzed in Regions of the Great Heresy, (15[1])Jerzy Ficowski’s (“YEH-zhih feet-SAWF-skeez”) monograph on this author. To make up for a pornographic book being out of stock, the narrator of a story by this author is given a complicated “folding telescope” that in fact unfolds into a car. (15[1])This author’s first book, written in postscripts of letters to Debora Vogel, ends with a story in which a new constellation called “The Cyclist” appears. This author’s recurring characters include the maid (*) Adela, who in one story rips pages from a book (10[1])called “The Book.” (10[1])This author’s father turns into a crab and is boiled in the story (10[2]-5[1])“Father’s Last Escape.” The unfinished novel The Messiah was lost after this author was shot in Drohobycz (“droh-HOH-beech”) due to a rivalry between two Gestapo officers. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this Polish author of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass and The Street of Crocodiles. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])