Complete Short Stories and Three Fat Men

by Yury Olesha, Aimee Fisher (Translator)

English, Russian (translation)

261 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Yury Karlovich Olesha (Russian/Ukraine: Юрий Олеша or Юрий Карлович Олеша), Soviet author of fiction, plays and satires best known for his 1927 novel Envy (Russian: Зависть). He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling censorship of the era. His works are delicate balancing-acts that superficially send pro-Communist messages but reveal far greater subtlety and richness upon a deeper reading. Sometimes, he is grouped with his friends Ilf and Petrov, Isaac Babel, and Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky into the Odessa School of Writers.

Reviews

[Illiterate · Rating 2 out of 5]

Shorts on youths’ experiences of modernity, people with confused impressions, war and Soviet life, personal essays. (Obviously, it includes Fat Men.)

[Irina · Rating 5 out of 5]

One on the best Russian authors. Amazing talent! So unique.