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    Yury Olesha était un auteur soviétique de fiction, de pièces de théâtre et de satires, célèbre pour son roman de 1927 "L'envie". Il s'impose comme l'un des romanciers russes les plus importants du XXe siècle, notable pour la création d'œuvres artistiques durables au milieu d'une sévère censure. L'écriture d'Olesha est un numéro d'équilibriste délicat, présentant des sentiments superficiels pro-communistes qui s'approfondissent en significations plus riches et subtiles lors d'un examen attentif. Sa voix unique et sa prose magistrale offrent une expérience complexe et gratifiante au lecteur exigeant.

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    Envy

    • Envy

      • 178pages
      • 7 heures de lecture
      3,8(3062)Évaluer

      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 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.A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL

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