Zavist'. Tri Tolstyaka

Yuriy Karlovich Olesha (1899-1960) - "chelovek feericheski odarennyy, on ne stanovilsya pisatelem, a sdelalsya im srazu... "Zavist'" bomboy ahnula v literaturnyh i zhurnal'nyh krugah" (Alla Bossart). Debyutnyy roman pereehavshego v stolicu molodogo odessita srazu zhe byl provozglashen kritikoy odnim iz vershinnyh dostizheniy sovetskoy literatury. I chto vazhno: eta ocenka ne osparivaetsya po sey den'. Bolee togo, vnimatel'nye chitateli i segodnya obnaruzhivayut v romane neozhidannye hudozhestvennye prozreniya. K primeru, imenno Olesha, opisav uspeshnogo i celeustremlennogo rabotnika obschepita Andreya Babicheva, sozdal metaforu buduschego sovetskogo stroya - obraz kolbasy kak simvol zhiznennogo blagopoluchiya. Literaturnaya biografiya Oleshi razvivalas' kak by zadom napered: posle uspeha "Zavisti" stalo vozmozhnym izdat' i napisannuyu ranee romanticheskuyu skazku "Tri Tolstyaka" - o revolyucionnom poryve naroda, svergnuvshego vlast' burzhuev. Zlodei arestovany, mechty o "kolbasnom socializme" esche ne aktual'ny, buduschee risuetsya... Seriya: Provereno vremenem.