person
Merdyaev
A lowly, barely literate clerk chosen by Semipalatov to be his office's "Gogolian type" and forced into a punishing reading regimen that eventually breaks his mind.
Reading notes
- Reading (A Tale of an Old Sparrow) §7 Merdyaev
A lowly clerk in the office, chosen half at random by Semipalatov to be the story's Gogolian "type" and forced to read Dumas and Sue until he breaks down.