Question
A story by this author contains the diary entries of Alina Reyes, who experiences a mysterious connection to a beggar in Budapest. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author, whose story "The Distances" is often anthologized with the story "Blow-Up". This Argentine author depicted Horacio Oliveira's search for La Maga in the novel Hopscotch.
ANSWER: Julio Cortázar
[10h] Another Cortázar story is narrated by Gilbert Durand, whose colleague Somoza is driven mad by one of these objects. Filbert dies by drowning soon after finding rain in his bedroom in a different author's story titled for one of these objects.
ANSWER: idols [or ídolos, or statues, or statuettes, or chacmools, or replicas of gods or sculptures]
[10m] This author depicted Filbert's death using diary entries in the story "Chac Mool". Ludovico, Celestina and King Philip II are reborn in many different ages in this author's novel Terra Nostra.
ANSWER: Carlos Fuentes
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