{"product_id":"envy","title":"Envy","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne 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 \u003ci\u003eEnvy\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProducer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarian Schwartz’s new English translation of \u003ci\u003eEnvy\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly captures the energy of Olesha’s masterpiece.\u003cspan style=\"display:\" none\u003eby Yuri Olesha, introduction by Ken Kalfus, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55690363011145,"sku":"9781590170861","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/2026\/9897\/files\/Envy.jpg?v=1779095101","url":"https:\/\/yyg0cd-80.myshopify.com\/products\/envy","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}