OLESHA YURI

(P/B) ENVY
First published in 1927, Yuri Olesha's "Envy" is, both stylistically and thematically, one of the most provocative novels from the Soviet era. Andrei Babichev is a paragon of Soviet values, an innovative and practical man, Director of the Food Industry Trust, a man whose vision encompasses such future advances for mankind as the 35-kopeck sausage and the self-peeling potato. Out of kindness, he rescues from the gutter Nikolai Kavalerov, violently tossed from a bar after a drunken and self-destructive tirade. But instead of gratitude, Babic...
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