character
Blok & Co.
also: Блок и К°.
A jokey collective pseudonym Chekhov signs at the close of a mock-official notice nested inside a comic letter to Dr. Obolonsky, sustaining the notice's parody-commercial framing (as if issued by a firm). Not the poet Alexander Blok, who was a child in 1889 and unconnected to this letter.
Reading notes
- To N. N. Obolonsky, December 1889. Moscow. §4 Blok \& Co.
A jokey collective pseudonym closing the mock-official notice, continuing its parody-commercial framing (as if signed by a firm). Not the poet Alexander Blok, who was a child in 1889 and unconnected to this letter.