Joyce Carol Oates’s essay about this author’s “lifelong obsessions” praises a story in which a husband describes driving his 16-year-old wife to commit suicide, titled “A Gentle Creature.” Ursula K. Le Guin quipped that “forgetting” this author (10[1])inspired the fictional Omelas, since a novel by this author (-5[1])also (10[1])imagines a society whose happiness (-5[1])depends on the “blood of a little victim” in the chapter “Rebellion.” (-5[1])The unnamed narrator of a novella by this author laments not being able to become an insect (10[1])and (10[1])behaves poorly at Zverkov’s party. In the section (10[1])“Apropos (10[3])of (10[1])the Wet Snow,” (10[11]-5[1])that character (10[2])created by this author ridicules (10[1])the prostitute (10[1])Liza. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Russian author (10[1])who described a “sick” and “spiteful” man (10[2])in Notes from Underground. ■END■ (10[8])