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Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov
Ivanov
The invented "talented columnist" whose staged drowning drives the first squib of "A Little Something"; a deliberately generic name marking him as an everyman press hack rather than a real person.
Reading notes
- A Little Something §2 Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov
The invented "columnist" whose supposed suicide anchors the first squib; the deliberately generic double name (both taken from the common patronymic Ivanovich) marks him as an everyman press hack rather than a real person.