This author wrote a novel in which a history teacher rents a film and becomes obsessed with meeting an actor who looks just like him.
In one of this author's novels, people discover that they are no longer able to die, until an organization called the Maphia discovers a way to kill them. One of this author's novels follows the trek of a pachyderm named Solomon, who was given as a gift to Archduke Maximilian. This author wrote a novel in which a history teacher rents a film and becomes obsessed with meeting an actor who looks just like him. In one of this man's novels, the doctor's wife stabs the leader of a gang of hoodlums in the neck with a pair of scissors, and leads several people who cannot see out of a quarantined asylum. This author of The Double wrote a novel in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the rest of Europe. For 10 points, name this Portuguese author of Blindness and The Stone Raft.
In one of this author's novels, people discover that they are no longer able to die, until an organization called the Maphia discovers a way to kill them.
José Saramago