A flâneur in this country describes dreary scenes from “Vespers” through “Dead Hours” in the poem “The Feeling of a Westerner.” An accountant says, “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life” in a book set in this country whose edition by Richard Zenith includes over 500 of its author’s fragments. In a novel, an ex-doctor from this country reads The God of the Labyrinth before donning a cloak and literally following his creator to the grave. Bernardo Soares relates his life in this country in a “factless autobiography” titled The Book of Disquiet. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis follows a “heteronym” created by an author from this country, Fernando Pessoa. For 10 points, name this city where Pangloss is hanged in Candide after a devastating earthquake. ■END■
ANSWER: Portugal [or Portuguese Republic; or República Portuguesa]
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