Virginia Woolf helped translate a sexually explicit chapter that was cut from this novel’s original publication in which the protagonist makes a confession to a monk named Tikhon. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel in which a character agrees to commit suicide and take the blame for a set of crimes in his note. A fire interrupts a poorly-attended dance after a literary gala goes awry in this novel.
ANSWER: Demons [or The Possessed; or The Devils; or Bésy]
[10e] Demons is by this author of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment.
ANSWER: Fyodor Dostoevsky
[10m] Demons takes one of its epigraphs from this author’s poem “Demons.” Mikhail Lermontov described how this “bard is killed!” in his “Death of the Poet,” which is dedicated to this author.
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]
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