For 10 points, name this Mexican author who also wrote about Ambrose Bierce's disappearance in The Old Gringo.
This man disagrees with several critics' contention that Don Quixote definitely puts on a barber's basin instead of the helm of Mambrino in his introduction to Tobias Smollett's translation of Don Quixote. Teodula Moctezuma and Ixca Cienfuegos are the "Overseers" in this man's first novel, Where the Air is Clear, while President Condoleeza Rice oversees the American occupation of Colombia in The Eagle's Throne. A recurring character in his works is Jaime Ceballos, who appears as an adolescent in Guanajuato in The Good Conscience and an ambitious lawyer in The Most Transparent Region, as well as at a New Year's Eve party, talking with the title aging businessman in The Death of Artemio Cruz. For 10 points, name this Mexican author who also wrote about Ambrose Bierce's disappearance in The Old Gringo.
This man disagrees with several critics' contention that Don Quixote definitely puts on a barber's basin instead of the helm of Mambrino in his introduction to Tobias Smollett's translation of Don Quixote.
Carlos {Fuentes}