Envy, and Other Works
By Yury Olesha
1981
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3.92
Average Rating
288
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CONTENTS Introduction vii Envy (1927) 1 The Chain (1929) 123 Love (1928) 131 Lyompa (1928) 141 The Cherry Stone (1929) 147 Aldebaran (1931) 159 From the Secret Notebook of Fellow-Traveler Sand (1931) 167 Natasha (1936) 181 I Look into the Past (1928) 185 Human Material (1928) 195 Jottings of a Writer (1930) 201 Speech to the First Congress of Soviet Writers (1934) 213 A List of Assets (1931) 221
Avg Rating
3.92
Number of Ratings
76
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Author
Yury Olesha
Author · 6 books
Yury Karlovich Olesha (Russian/Ukraine: Юрий Олеша or Юрий Карлович Олеша), Soviet author of fiction, plays and satires best known for his 1927 novel Envy (Russian: Зависть). He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling censorship of the era. His works are delicate balancing-acts that superficially send pro-Communist messages but reveal far greater subtlety and richness upon a deeper reading. Sometimes, he is grouped with his friends Ilf and Petrov, Isaac Babel, and Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky into the Odessa School of Writers.
