A general store in one story by this author reminds the protagonist of an engraving in an edition of Paul et Virginie.
A general store in one story by this author reminds the protagonist of an engraving in an edition of Paul et Virginie. In that story by this author, a man who looks Chinese throws spitballs of breadcrumbs at the protagonist. One story by this author opens with Treviranus and the protagonist finding the body of Doctor Yarmolinsky; that protagonist later arrives at Triste-le-Roy on March 3rd and is promised that "the next time I kill you" it will be on a point along a "single straight line which is invisible and everlasting." In that story by this author, (*) Red Scharlach kills the protagonist, a Kabbalah-inspired detective named Erik Lönnrot. Another of his stories begins with Johannes Dahlmann landing in Buenos Aires. For 10 points, name this Argentine author who included "The South" and "Death and the Compass" in his Ficciones.
A general store in one story by this author reminds the protagonist of an engraving in an edition of Paul et Virginie.
Jorge Luis Borges