This author praised Alexander Pope’s “speeches and spectacles” translation of the Odyssey in “The Homeric Versions,” which argues that “none or all” translations are faithful. This author argued that writers create their own precursors (-5[1])in an essay which claims that Browning’s “Fears and Scruples” prophesies Kafka. The narrator of a short story by this author (-5[1])finds an encyclopedia describing a Berkeleyian idealist society with a (*) nounless language. (10[1])A narrator created by this author considers the original Don Quixote to be inferior to an identical version (10[1])written by Pierre Menard. (10[1])This author was inspired by (10[1])the infinite monkey theorem in a work that imagines a universe filled with hexagonal rooms containing all possible books. For 10 points, name this author of “The Library of Babel.” ■END■ (10[3])