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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 (-5[1])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 (10[1])and behaves poorly at Zverkov’s party. In the section “Apropos of the Wet Snow,” (10[1])that character (10[1])created by this author ridicules the prostitute Liza. For 10 points, name this Russian author who described a “sick” and “spiteful” man (10[2])in Notes from Underground. ■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: Fyodor Dostoevsky [or Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky]
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