This non-Borges author of All The Names wrote a novel in which Herbert Quain's The God of the Labyrinth is read by one of Fernando (*) Pessoa's heteronyms.
One of this author's protagonists converses with his ceiling, which thinks of itself as the eye of God, and appears in a novel which climaxes with the mingling of the records of the living and the dead at the Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths. He wrote a sequel to one of his books which centers on a parliamentary election marred by the widespread casting of blank ballots. This non-Borges author of All The Names wrote a novel in which Herbert Quain's The God of the Labyrinth is read by one of Fernando (*) Pessoa's heteronyms. The King of Ward 3 is killed by the Doctor's Wife in his most famous novel, which opens at a traffic light where a car remains unmoving, as its driver has become afflicted with the title condition. For 10 points, name this author of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis and Blindness, a Nobel winner from Portugal.
One of this author's protagonists converses with his ceiling, which thinks of itself as the eye of God, and appears in a novel which climaxes with the mingling of the records of the living and the dead at the Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Jose de Sousa Saramago