Its main character obsessively puts on a dead relative's white suit, and is interrogated by the councilor Maximov.
In this novel's nineteenth chapter, "The fires," its main character is shocked when a woman whispers the word "devil" at the moment she orgasms. Near the end of this novel, a child smuggles poison to the prison cell of the Finnish revolutionary Katri. Its main character obsessively puts on a dead relative's white suit, and is interrogated by the councilor Maximov. After returning from Dresden, its main character stays with the landlady Anna Sergeyevna, and becomes inspired by his debates with the leader of the People's Vengeance party, Nechayev. At the beginning of this novel, its main character travels to the title city after learning that his son Pavel has died. It was the first novel its author wrote after the end of apartheid, and ends with the title character writing one of his novels. For 10 points, name this novel by J. M. Coetzee which fictionalizes the life of Dostoyevsky.
In this novel's nineteenth chapter, "The fires," its main character is shocked when a woman whispers the word "devil" at the moment she orgasms.
The Master of Petersburg