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389: 66: 128: 284: 25: 625:, which dealt with inequalities in Soviet society, but according to the same police report, he feared it would be banned because it was "many times more left-art than Shostakovich" The film was suppressed until the 1970s. In August 1936, he allowed himself to be pressured into signing a declaration calling for death sentences for the defendants at the first of the 485:, and ultimately maintain a lifelong friendship with the latter. As a student, Yuri demonstrated a knack for science but favored literature above his other subjects and began writing during the year before his graduation cum laude from high school. In 1917 Olesha entered law school but postponed his studies two years later to volunteer for the 828:
Ingdahl, Kazmiera. "' In Studies in 20th Century Russian Prose." Studies in 20th Century Russian Prose. Ed. Nils Åke Nilsson. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1982. 156–185. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 69. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center.
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When Isaac Babel was under arrest, in 1940, he told his interrogators that Olesha was practising "the right to despair"—by getting into a series of loud arguments in taverns. Despite continuing to write and edit, Olesha's career was stunted by his political environment, and on 10 May 1960 the author
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which he wrote in 1924 but did not publish until the year after his initial literary success. Olesha also wrote several short stories in the 1920s and 1930s, the most prominent of which are "Liompa" (1928), "The Cherry Stone" (1929), and "Natasha" (1936). In addition to prose fiction, Olesha also
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novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling
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Wolfson, Boris. "Escape from Literature: Constructing the Soviet Self in Yuri Olesha's Diary of the 1930s." The Russian Review 63.4 (2004): 609–20. Biography Index. Web. 27 Apr. 2011.
541:, which he published in 1927, follows five leading characters. Largely regarded as his greatest work, the novel thematically contrasts the old and new order, as well as 708:
Olesha, IUriĭ Karlovich, and Judson Rosengrant, ed. & tr. No day without a line: from notebooks. Northwestern Univ. Press, 1998. Biography Index. Web. 27 Apr. 2011.
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quoted Olesha as saying that the composer was "a brilliant, and a blow against Shostakovich is a calamity for art." He had written the script of a film
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Olesha's writing career began while he was involved with the literary group of young writers in Odessa called "The Green Lamp," which included not only
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Peppard, Victor. "Iurii Karlovich Olesha" Russian prose writers between the world wars.. Gale Group, 2003. Biography Index. Web. 27 Apr. 2011.
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King, Francis. "Past, Present, and Future Odds: Envy by Yuri Olesha." Spectator. V296 i9197. 58. Nov. 13, 2004. Web. 29 Apr. 2011.
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messages but reveal far greater subtlety and richness upon a deeper reading. Sometimes, he is grouped with his friends
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In the 1930s and 1940s Olesha found it increasingly difficult to publish his work as a result of stringent
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Jackson, William Thomas Hobdell. European Writers: Walter Benjamin to Yuri Olesha. Vol. 11.
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refusal to sign a similar denunciation, Olesha defended him as "a perfectly soviet person".
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Text of Olesha's speech to First Writers Union Congress translated by David Powelstock
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Olesha's literary debut would also become one of his most popular works: the novel
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of the era. His works are delicate balancing acts that superficially send pro-
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the same year to work at a popular railway worker's periodical called
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19 February] 1899 – 10 May 1960) was a Russian and
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Neil Cornwell, Reference Guide to Russian Literature
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