BIBLIOGRAPHY

Peppard, Victor. “Selected Bibliography.” In The Poetics of Yury Olesha, pp. 147-57. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989.

An extensive list of primary and secondary sources.

CRITICISM

Avins, Carol. “Eliot and Olesa: Versions of the Anti-Hero.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue canadienne de littérature comparée 6 (winter 1979): 64-74.

Compares Envy to T. S. Eliot's “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

Erlich, Victor. “A Shop of Metaphors: The Short Brilliant Career of Yury Olesha.” In Modernism and Revolution: Russian Literature in Transition, pp. 198-216. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.

A study of Olesha's work in the context of Russian literary modernism from around 1900 to the end of the 1920s.

Grayson, Jane. “Double Bill: Nabokov and Olesha.” In From Pushkin to Palisandriia: Essays on the Russian Novel in Honor of Richard Freeborn, edited by Arnold McMillin, pp. 181-200. New York: St. Martin's, 1990.

A comparison of Olesha's work with that of Vladimir Nabokov.

Ingdahl, Kazimiera. The Artist and the Creative Act: A Study of Jurij Olesa's Novel Zavist'. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiskell, 1984, 172 p.

A study of the creative process and its relationship to aesthetics in Olesha's best-known novel.

———. A Graveyard of Themes: The Genesis of Three Key Works by Iurii Olesha. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1994, 167 p.

A critical study, with biographical elements, of Envy, “The Cherry Pit,” and A Strict Youth.

MacAndrew, Andrew R. “Introduction.” In “Envy” and Other Works by Yuri Olesha, pp. vii-xix. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1967.

Brief summary of Olesha's life and overview of the importance of Envy.

Russell, Robert. “Olesha's ‘The Cherry Stone’.” In The Structural Analysis of Russian Narrative Fiction, edited and introduced by Joe Andrew, pp. 82-95. Keele, England: Keele University Press, 1984.

Presents a structural analysis of Olesha's story “The Cherry Stone,” using theories of the Russian formalist critics.

Tucker, Janet G. Revolution Betrayed: Jurij Olesa's “Envy.” Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1996, 202 p.

A study of the way Olesha used aesthetics for political and social commentary and a discussion of the impact of the Bolshevik revolution on the intelligentsia.

Additional coverage of Olesha's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 85-88; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 8; European Writers, Vol. 11; Literature Resource Center; and Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 3.