This author described modernity as a series of “terminal paradoxes” in a book chapter examining “The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes.” This author discussed the “playful transcription” of his Diderot-inspired play Jacques and his Master in a book titled for Max Brod’s betrayal of Kafka, Testaments Betrayed. Borrowing a concept from Mikhail Bakhtin, this author championed the “polyphony” in the Hermann Broch novel The Sleepwalkers. In his book The Art of the Novel, this author called for structuring novels in seven parts, which he did for a novel in which Ludvik (-5[1])writes on a postcard, “Optimism is the opium of the people!” Another novel by this author begins by discussing Nietzsche’s concept of eternal return. For 10 points, name this author of The Joke and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. ■END■ (10[1])