- New
In the public consciousness, the author of “Three Fat Men” and “Envy” Yuri Olesha exists either as a witty writer or as the hero of Arkady Belinkov’s revealing book. In his new, partly autobiographical fairy tale, the classic of Israeli Russian-language literature David Markish - for whose prose, by the way, Yuri Karlovich was the first reader - offers a completely different Olesha: reflective, almost tender.