text: The protagonist of a novel from this country encounters Marenda, who has a deformed arm, Lydia,with whom he has an affair, and the ghost of an author from this country who wrote the symbolist epicMessage.
full_question: The protagonist of a novel from this country encounters Marenda, who has a deformed arm, Lydia,with whom he has an affair, and the ghost of an author from this country who wrote the symbolist epicMessage. The protagonist of another novel from this country befriends the "dog of tears". Another novelby the same writer from this country opens with an election in which 83% of people cast (*) blank ballots. Apoet from this country wrote under many "heteronyms", including one reused by an author who wrote a novel inwhich the Doctor's Wife stabs the King of Ward 3 and is the only one not afflicted with the title condition. For 10points, name this home of Fernando Pessoa and the author of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis and Blindness, JosÃ©Saramago.
first_sentence: The protagonist of a novel from this country encounters Marenda, who has a deformed arm, Lydia,with whom he has an affair, and the ghost of an author from this country who wrote the symbolist epicMessage.
raw_answer: Portugal [or the Portuguese Republic; or the RepÃºblica Portuguesa] 