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A mostly fabricated discussion of a rainy burial in this work follows a scene in which one character unsettles the protagonist with her burning eyes, which that protagonist describes as feral, in a darkened room he had come to looking to assault a man after embarrassingly arriving an hour early to a dinner. That man, an inheritor who the protagonist criticizes for peasant girl-related debauchery, mirrors a military man who earlier prompts the main character to purchase a beaver collar, for which he borrows money from Anton, his boss. The narrator is obsessed with the phrase two and two is four and clashes with Ferfichkin and Simonov over a going-away party for Zverkov, which prompts a trip to a brothel and later an exchange with the vulture-like Apollon. The kindly prostitute Liza is ultimately spurned by, FTP, the protagonist of what early existentialist novel consisting of the titular correspondences, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literature

The protagonist of one of his novellas unearths repressed memories like insulting an old man just because he had a great one-liner ready. In that novella by this author, a family of "some ten or twelve" daughters play games like "proverbs" and "foxes and hounds" at the expense of a main character who gets locked in a room for an hour in a game of "hide-and-go-seek." The narrator of another novella by this author concocts elaborate plans to get revenge on an officer who had shoved him out of the way. This author created a girl who dies in the foster care of the Pogoreltsevs, and who turns out to be the daughter, not of (*) Trusotsky, but of Velchaninov. In the second section, "Apropos of the Wet Snow," of one of his novellas, the protagonist accidentally shows up an hour early to a dinner party and gives a speech insulting all of Zverkov's friends. A novella by this author of The Eternal Husband begins "I am a sick man...I am a wicked man." For 10 points, name this author of Notes from Underground.
Literature

Although he was a sometime Communist Party member, his early poetry collections were banned, as much for their eroticism as for their ironic tone. He followed his successful one-act play The Owners of the Keys with an acclaimed first novel, The Joke. But two years later in 1969 the authorities banned his second novel, Life Is Elsewhere. In 1975 he emigrated to France, but his novels weren't published in his native Czechoslovakia till 1989. FTP name the author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Literature