Fet and Maria Lazič

A Hidden Polemic with Leo Tolstoy: Afanasy Fet's Lyric “Mine was the madness he wanted…”

“…83 Fet, too, had previously done so. 84 But as Venclova pointed out, Fet had never before used med in this manner. Med, in fact, occurs only one other time in Fet's oeuvre.…”

Obraz Marii Łazicz w prozie wspomnieniowej Afanasija Feta

“…Most researchers treat the story of Fet's love for Lazich shown in this work of art mainly as a biographical context for the analysis of his poetry. Only Lev Suchotin in his treatise Фет и Елена Лазич [Fet and Elena Lazich] (1933( , after Klenin, 1991 and Emily Klenin in the article Fet and Maria Lazič (Klenin, 1991) reflect on the theme of love in Fet's prose memoirs and poetry. Considering the fact that the history of the acquaintance with Maria and her poetic image, recorded in Fet's love poetry, is extensively analysed in detail, it is worth making an attempt to examine how they were presented in the prose of the same author.…”