concept
The Bleak (social type)
Bleak
also: Уклейка
In "A Fishy Business"'s allegory, the bleak -- dismissed in two words as a "beggar-woman" -- represents the destitute at the very bottom of the social ladder, the treatise's briefest and bleakest entry.
Reading notes
- A Fishy Business §26 The Bleak
The bleak (uklейка), tersely dismissed in two words as a "beggar-woman," represents the destitute at the very bottom of the social ladder -- the treatise's briefest and bleakest entry.