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This author drew on the modernist style of Finnegans Wake in a novel centered around the construction of El Escorial. The narrator of (20[1])one of this author's novels refuses (0[1])to testify to Congress and argues that they must learn to "live with" the central setting rather than to "save" it. This author copied the structure of Tristram Shandy for a novel in which the title character's parents scheme to have him born on the 500 year (0[1])anniversary of (*) Columbus's (10[1]0[1])arrival in the (10[1])Americas. One of this author's characters, who carries a copy of Don Quixote, (10[2])falls in love with Harriet Winslow (0[1])and is (10[1])killed by (0[1])General Arroyo. (10[1])For 10 points, name (0[1])this author who fictionalized Ambrose Bierce's life in Mexico (10[1])in The Old Gringo. ■END■ (10[4])

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