Envy

"For in Envy Olesha is himself...but himself in that shadowland of yearnings which was his special province. He was never at home, except in his 'shop of metaphors,' neither in remembrances, like Marcel Proust, nor, like Tolstoy, even in his doubts. Olesha's essence is homelessness and a longing for a home, which he finds only in craftsmanship, in precise, metaphoric statements of unresolved questions. Olesha is the craftsman of unrest, of a restrained anxiety that is never elevated to philosophic principles. He is not an ist of any kind."Olesha, IUrii Karlovich is the author of 'Envy', published 2009 under ISBN 9780882330914 and ISBN 0882330918.