Einstein meets the Angel of Death as a gas station attendant in a story by this author collected in The Bewitched Bourgeois. This author created a version (15[1])of the Orpheus myth in a Mod 1960s aesthetic in the graphic novel Poem Strip. In the Experimental (15[1])Camp (15[1])of (15[1])Military Zone 36, Professor Ismani discovers that a scientist (15[1])is building the consciousness of his lost love Laura in this author’s novel The Singularity. This author wrote about animals (15[1])who leave a city after being corrupted by human habits in the children’s book The Bears’ Famous (15[1])Invasion (15[1])of Sicily. (15[1])The poem (*) “Waiting for the (10[1])Barbarians” inspired a novel by this man in which Lieutenant Drogo patrols the remote fortress of Bastiani before dying of illness when an attack finally comes. For 10 points, name this fantastical Italian author of The Tartar Steppe. ■END■