concept
The Bream (social type)
Bream
also: Лещ
In "A Fishy Business"'s allegory, the bream stands for the hypocritical merchant-innkeeper who profits from government road contracts while affecting pious abstinence in public -- a stock target of satire on merchant piety as commercial performance.
Reading notes
- A Fishy Business §27 The Bream
The bream (leshch) stands for the hypocritical merchant-innkeeper who profits from government road contracts while affecting pious abstinence ("Lenten fare") in public -- a stock target of the era's satire on merchant piety as commercial performance.