{"product_id":"9781590175415","title":"Envy","description":"A New York Review Books Original\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that  has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha’s  novella \u003ci\u003eEnvy\u003c\/i\u003e brings together cutting social satire, slapstick  humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a model Soviet citizen, a  swaggeringly self-satisfied mogul of the food industry who intends to  revolutionize modern life with mass-produced sausage. Nikolai is a  loser. Finding him drunk in the gutter, Andrei gives him a bed for the  night and a job as a gofer. Nikolai takes what he can, but that doesn’t  mean he’s grateful. Griping, sulking, grovelingly abject, he despises  everything Andrei believes in, even if he envies him his every breath. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eProducer and sponger, insider and outcast, master and man  fight back and forth in the pages of Olesha’s anarchic comedy. It is a  contest of wills in which nothing is sure except the incorrigible human  heart. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Marian Schwartz’s new English translation of \u003ci\u003eEnvy\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly captures the energy of Olesha’s masterpiece.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137970422000,"sku":"9781590175415","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175415_p0.jpg?v=1763808732","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175415","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}