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Zavist'. Tri Tolstiaka [Envy. Three Fat Men]
Yury Karlovich Olesha (1899-1960) - "a man is magically gifted, he did not become a writer, but became one at once ..." Envy "gasped in literary and journalistic circles" (Alla Bossart). The debut novel of a young Odessa resident who had moved to the capital was immediately proclaimed criticism of one of the highest achievements of Soviet literature. And what is important: this assessment is not contested to this day. Moreover, attentive readers today discover unexpected artistic insights in the novel. For example, it was Olesha who described the successful and goal-oriented catering worker Andrei Babichev, created a metaphor for the future Soviet system - the image of sausage as a symbol of life's well-being. OleshaÆs literary biography developed as if backwards: after the succe