concept
The Chub (social type)
Chub
also: Голавль
In "A Fishy Business"'s allegory, the chub -- explicitly called a "fish of the intelligentsia" -- satirizes the cultured liberal professional: philanthropic in appearance, quoting progressive poets, yet practicing the same predation as the pike while excusing it as historical necessity.
Reading notes
- A Fishy Business §16 The Chub
The chub (golavl'), described outright as a "рыбий интеллигент" (fish of the intelligentsia), satirizes the liberal professional class: cultured, philanthropic in appearance, quoting progressive poets like Nekrasov, yet practicing the same predation as the pike while excusing it as historical necessity.