ENVY.
by OLESHA, Yuri
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Slightly shelfworn, spine slightly creased, lower front corner slightly bumped and creased, else content clean. Very good indeed
- ISBN 10
- 5050016746
- ISBN 13
- 9785050016744
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Synopsis
Yuri Olesha (1899–1960), the son of an impoverished land-owner who spent his days playing cards, grew up in Odessa, a lively multicultural city whose literary scene also included Isaac Babel. Olesha made his name as a writer with Three Fat Men, a proletarian fairy tale, and had an even greater success with Envy in 1927. Soon, however, the ambiguous nature of the novella’s depiction of the new revolutionary era led to complaints from high, followed by the collapse of his career and the disappearance of his books. In 1934, Olesha addressed the First Congress of Soviet Writers, arguing that a writer should be allowed the freedom to choose his own style and themes. For the rest of his life he wrote very little. A memoir of his youth, No Day Without a Line, appeared posthumously. Ken Kalfus ’s most recent book is a novel, The Commissariat of Enlightenment. He is also the author of two short story collections, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies . Marian Schwartz has been translating Russian fiction and nonfiction for over thirty years. Her work includes Edvard Radzinsky’s The Last Tsar , Yuri Olesha’s Envy , and many works by Nina Berberova.
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- Any Amount of Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C29181
- Title
- ENVY.
- Author
- OLESHA, Yuri
- Book Condition
- Used - Slightly shelfworn, spine slightly creased, lower front corner slightly bumped and creased, else content clean. Very good indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition In English. Paperback.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 5050016746
- ISBN 13
- 9785050016744
- Publisher
- Progress Books
- Place of Publication
- Moscow; London & Wellingborough,
- Date Published
- 1988
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