One of this author's books opens with a description of an invisible Malay creature in the Tower of Victory called the A Bao A Qu. He created a character who suffers septicemia after gashing his head on a beam while excitedly planning to read a copy of the Arabian Nights and later resigns himself to death in a knife fight. In another story by this man, Jaromir (*) Hladik is given a year to finish h
One of this author's books opens with a description of an invisible Malay creature in the Tower of Victory called the A Bao A Qu. He created a character who suffers septicemia after gashing his head on a beam while excitedly planning to read a copy of the Arabian Nights and later resigns himself to death in a knife fight. In another story by this man, Jaromir (*) Hladik is given a year to finish his masterpiece before he is shot by a Nazi firing squad. This author of the Book of Imaginary Beings and "The Secret Miracle" wrote about Juan Dahlmann in "El Sur" and penned a story about a universe consisting of an infinite number of hexagons containing all possible books. For 10 points, name this blind writer of "The Library of Babel," which can be found in Ficciones.