Премудрый пискарь by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
A sharp satirical allegory about a tiny, overcautious fish whose life of timid maxims—praise of order, submission to authority, fear of change and strict avoidance of risk—stands for a conservative, passive populace; the fish’s obsession with safety and fatalistic piety isolates it and, when real danger arrives, reveals how timidity and blind obedience become self-defeating, criticizing the complacency that sustains injustice.
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