figure
Serapion
also: Серапион, Serapion Kosmich, Серапион Косьмич
An invented character, Kuzma Yegorov's son, a town barber home for the holidays who is accused of theft, argues back with half-digested schoolroom rhetoric, and is flogged before the money turns up in his father's own pocket.
Reading notes
- The Trial §2 Serapion
Kuzma Yegorov's son, a barber working in town, home for the holidays and accused by his father of stealing money -- the target of the flogging that structures the story.