Envy

Prose of Yuri Karlovich Olesha (1899-1960) is never boring, contemporaries called him the King of Metaphor. Everyone knows the fairy tale “Three Fat Men”, but the novel “Envy”, telling the writer, telling the writer, telling about the fate of the intellectual in post -revolutionary Russia, the confrontation of the wonderful old world and the incomprehensible mysterious new one.
The main character, the young loser Nikolai Kavalerov, after the scandal in the beer, enters the house of the “new formation”, the director of the trust. The aesthetics of the intellectual, in fact, “extra person”, is opposed to pragmatism and prudence. So who envies whom and to whom to envy us?
This publication also presents a book of memoirs and thoughts of the author about life Not a day without a line