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Lyolya
also: Леля
The heroine of the phantom pulp novel the sketch parodies but never actually writes -- a stock romantic-ingenue name, not a real person.
Reading notes
- Unpublished. An Unfinished Novel §3 Lyolya
A diminutive of Yelena/Olga, and the fictional heroine of the phantom novel this sketch never actually delivers -- a stock name for a romantic ingenue in the pulp fiction Chekhov is parodying.