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It's far more refreshing to open Olesha and see how it's done, not how it's supposed to be done.
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At dinner-time I sent Olesha to say that none of those fellows had better be released from work; but released they have been, and now the result is apparent!
Through Russia 2003
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Olesha vanished for some years about 1938, but then returned, and died in Moscow of a heart attack in 1960 (while correcting proofs, it is said, of an article on Hemingway, who was one of his great enthusiasms).
Stories of Intrigue and Love Muchnic, Helen 1968
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Pilnyak and Olesha had in common the misfortune of having been born with a writer's gift in Russia at the turn of the century, Pilnyak (whose real name was Boris Vogau) in 1894, Olesha in 1899.
Stories of Intrigue and Love Muchnic, Helen 1968
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Both achieved sudden fame, Pilnyak in 1922 with the publication of his novel, The Naked Year, Olesha in 1927 with his novella, Envy.
Stories of Intrigue and Love Muchnic, Helen 1968
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Olesha to say that none of those fellows had better be released from work; but released they have been, and now the result is apparent!
Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902
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A Different Stripe: World Cup fever, NYRB style (with Yuri Olesha)
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