In that novel by this author, a woman ends her incestuous relationship with her father by killing him and burning down their mansion to commit suicide.
A character in a novel by this author declines to write his proposed modern-day Don Quixote, in which a mystery novel junkie sets out to solve real crimes, because "I am not CervantesÂ… and I am very lazy." In another novel by this author, a woman spends the final eighty years of her life locked in an attic with her father's severed head. In that novel by this author, a woman ends her incestuous relationship with her father by killing him and burning down their mansion to commit suicide. The protagonist of a novel by him insults a post office worker for refusing to give him back the letter he had mailed to the estancia of (*) Hunter. In a novel by this author, a madman records his delusion that the visually impaired control the world in his "Report on the Blind." After noticing the detail of a solitary woman at a window in a painting, Maria Iribarne is stalked and killed by the artist, Juan Pablo Castel, in this author's short first novel. For 10 points, name this Argentine writer of the novels On Heroes and Tombs and The Tunnel.
A character in a novel by this author declines to write his proposed modern-day Don Quixote, in which a mystery novel junkie sets out to solve real crimes, because "I am not CervantesÂ… and I am very lazy."
Ernesto Sabato 