Round 5: Tossup 14

A character with this condition receives a beating from a servant after being caught hanging cats and burying them with “great ceremony.” When asked to describe an execution, a character with this condition compares the face of a condemned man to a picture he saw in Basel. A character avoids (10[1])getting stabbed in a hotel after this condition causes him to fall down a flight of stairs. The son of “Stinking” Lizaveta confesses to using this condition as an alibi for murder to a character who is visited by the devil during a dream. In another novel, a character with this condition returns to a Swiss sanatorium (10[1]-5[1])after learning that Nastasya Filippovna was murdered by Rogozhin. Smerdyakov suffers from, for 10 points, what condition that afflicts Prince Myshkin in The Idiot (10[1])also afflicted Fyodor Dostoevsky? ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

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