concept
Zhizneopisanie (autobiographical statement)
life-account
also: жизнеописание
A handwritten autobiographical statement required to accompany a civil-service job petition, detailing the applicant's birth, family, and education; composing one in proper literary style was a genteel ordeal for the barely-literate lower classes, and its writing anguish is the comic engine of "A Personage."
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- A Personage §1 enclosing an account of their life
The zhizneopisanie: a handwritten autobiographical statement, required alongside a civil-service job petition, giving the applicant's birth, parentage, and education. For the barely-literate lower classes, producing one in a suitably dignified style was a genuine ordeal -- the comic engine of this story.
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