Round 5: Tossup 19

In a novel by this author, a character who has his eardrums punctured by a potbellied terrorist leaves a confession related by a British teacher of languages. A mental breakdown in which this author babbled to his own characters, such as a student who turns in his classmate for throwing a bomb at a Tsarist minister, is related in Maya Jasanoff’s biography The Dawn Watch. In a novel by this author, after the consular official Mr Vladimir calls him a “lazy” (*) anarchist, Verloc tasks his young brother-in-law (10[1])with carrying an explosive to Greenwich Observatory. This author’s “political” novels include Under Western Eyes and a novel about an Italian “Capataz de Cargadores” who hides a silver cache in the fictional country of Costaguana. For 10 points, The Secret Agent and Nostromo are by what Polish-British author? ■END■ (10[1])

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