Olesha's Envy: A Critical Companion - Paperback

by Rimgaila Salys (Author)

This book, part of the acclaimed AATSEEL Critical Companions series, is designed to guide readers through Envy, Yury Olesha's humorous look at the individual's struggle with an increasingly industrialized society. This companion acquaints the reader with the history, biographical context, critical reception, and interpretation problems related to the novel. It also helps the reader decipher the book's difficult features, including its shifting narrators and fluid boundaries between dream and reality.

Author Biography

RIMGAILA SALYS is a professor of Russian in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder.