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 inspired the fictional Omelas, since a novel by this author also imagines a society whose happiness depends on the “blood of a little victim” in the chapter “Rebellion.” The unnamed narrator of a novella by this author laments not being able to become an insect and behaves poorly at Zverkov’s party. In the section “Apropos of the Wet Snow,” that character created by this author ridicules the prostitute Liza. For 10 points, name this Russian author who described a “sick” and “spiteful” man in Notes from Underground. ■END■
ANSWER: Fyodor Dostoevsky [or Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky]
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