person
Afanasy Fet
Fet
also: г. Фет, Mr. Fet
A prominent real Russian lyric poet of Chekhov's era, celebrated for rapturous nature verse; named by the narrator as the one thing missing from an overripe moonlit garden scene, making explicit the story's parody of sentimental nature-poem cliches.
Reading notes
- A Nasty Story §46 г. Фета
Afanasy Fet was a real, prominent lyric poet of Chekhov's era known for rapturous nature verse; naming him as the one thing missing from the overripe romantic nightscape is a parody of the sentimental nature-poem cliches the whole scene is built from.