Yuri Olesha\"s novella combines social satire, effervescent humor, and a wild visionary streak to tell the story of a Soviet Babbitt, a hero of industry who presides over an unheard-of increase in the production of sausage. But beside this man......

First published in 1927, Yuri Olesha’s Envy is, both stylistically and thematically one of the most provocative novels of the Soviet Era....

Boasting a veritable menagerie of characters, including dancing instructors, pies, and talking parrots, and written in the Franco-Italian story-telling tradition, The Three Fat Men, unquestionably the greatest Soviet children\"s parable, is......