Envy by Yury Olesha

120 pages first pub 1927 (editions)

fiction literary challenging funny reflective medium-paced
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First published in 1927, this brilliant satire of the Soviet system presents three comic characters, Nikolai Kavalerov and the Babichev brothers, bumbling their way through the bureaucracy. Translated by the renowned Robert Payne.

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