The "dog of tears" follows one of this author's protagonists, who is suspected of causing 83% of voters to turn in blank ballots after leading her (*) ward during an epidemic.
This author wrote about H., who paints the industrialist S. and has an affair with his secretary, in Manual of Painting and Calligraphy. This man wrote about Bartholomew Lorenzo's invention of the Passarola, a flying machine that is flown by the title lovers to escape the Inquisition. In another of his works, a man steals a car from a cripple out of "generosity and altruism" and is later fatally kicked after trying to grope a girl. The "dog of tears" follows one of this author's protagonists, who is suspected of causing 83% of voters to turn in blank ballots after leading her (*) ward during an epidemic. Characters of this author of Baltasar and Blimunda include the ex-prostitute with the dark glasses and the doctor's wife, who is the only character exempt from the title condition. For 10 points, name this Portuguese author of Blindness.
This author wrote about H., who paints the industrialist S. and has an affair with his secretary, in Manual of Painting and Calligraphy.
José de Sousa Saramago