Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Art as a Means of Knowing and Possessing the World 15
6. II. The Need to Dominate and Control: the Problem of Envy 38
7. III. Occasional Moments of Fulfillment and Liberation 59
8. IV. The Limitations of Olesha’s Imagination 78
9. V. Olesha the Dramatist 102
10. VI. A Last Attempt at a New Subject: The Theme of Soviet Youth 115
11. VII. Olesha as a Writer of the 1920s 131
12. VIII. A Last Work: No Day without a Line 174
13. Conclusion 195
14. A Selected Bibliography 199
15. Index 209