Question

At the end of a story by this author, a young man who escaped to Rita's house reluctantly hands Rita a stick to beat a slave. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who, in one story, wrote about the madness of the title psychiatrist, who confines both healthy and sick people to the "green house."
ANSWER: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ("ma-SHA-doo JEE uh-SEES")
[10m] Machado de Assis is best known for a novel written as the fictional memoir of Bras Cubas after one of these events. A collection of sonnets by a different author is titled for one of these events that occurred to Romelio Ureta.
ANSWER: death [accept word forms like dying; accept funerals; accept muerte or morte; accept suicide; accept The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas or Sonnets of Death]
[10e] Esteban Trueba builds the title house of this Isabel Allende novel after the tragic death of his fiancée Rosa the Beautiful.
ANSWER: The House of the Spirits [or La casa de los espíritus]
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