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Vasily Semi-Bulatov
Semi-Bulatov
also: Василий Семи-Булатов
The letter's narrator and signatory, an elderly, self-taught, comically ignorant provincial landowner and retired Cossack officer whose earnest, malapropism-riddled pseudo-science is the story's entire comic engine.
Reading notes
- A Letter to a Learned Neighbor §6 Vasily Semi-Bulatov
The letter's narrator and signatory, an elderly, self-taught, comically ignorant provincial landowner-Cossack whose earnest, malapropism-riddled pseudo-science is the story's entire comic engine.