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Serge
also: Серж
The parody protagonist of "The Turnip": an infant born with a turnip for a head who is hauled, by a chain of increasingly grand family connections, up into the world and into the civil rank of state councillor.
Reading notes
- From the Notebook of Ivan Ivanych (Thoughts and Notes) §46 Serge
The turnip-headed infant of this parody of the folk tale "The Turnip" (Репка), hauled "up into the world" by an escalating chain of family connections rather than by any merit of his own.
- The Turnip §2 Serge
The infant "turnip" of the parody, standing in for the vegetable of the original folk tale "The Turnip" -- a child born with a turnip for a head who grows up to be pulled, through family connections, into a career.