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Envy (New York Review Books Classics) by Olesha, Yuri; Schwartz, Marian (Translator) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha's novella Envy brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a model Soviet citizen, a swaggeringly self-satisfied mogul of the food industry who intends to revolutionize modern life with mass-produced sausage. Nikolai is a loser. Finding him drunk in the gutter, Andrei gives him a bed for the night and a job as a gofer. Nikolai takes what he can, but that doesn't mean he's grateful. Griping, sulking, grovelingly abject, he despises everything Andrei believes in, even if he envies him his every breath. Producer and sponger, insider and outcast, master and man fight back and forth in the pages of Olesha's anarchic comedy. It is a contest of wills in which nothing is sure except the incorrigible human heart. Marian Schwartz's new English translation of Envy brilliantly captures the energy of Olesha's masterpiece. Review Olesha wrote only one novel, Envy . The book was published in 1927, 10 years after the Bolshevik Revolution and a few years before the net of socialist realism fell on Russian writers...

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Author

Olesha, Yuri; Schwartz, Marian (Translator)

Publisher

NYRB Classics

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590170861

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor

Rating

3.76 / 5 (2,122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14