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,” (10[2])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■ (10[1])