Envy (New York Review Books Classics) (English Edition)

Yuri Olesha

NYRB Classics

2012

179 páginas

5h 58m

ISBN-13: 9781590175415

Português Brasileiro

A New York Review Books Original One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Oleshas 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 doesnt mean hes 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 Oleshas anarchic comedy. It is a contest of wills in which nothing is sure except the incorrigible human heart. Marian Schwartzs new English translation of Envy brilliantly captures the energy of Oleshas masterpiece.