Leonard Lopate interviewed me this summer about my new translation of Yuri Olesha’s 1927 novel Envy for his “Underappreciated” series: “When it was published in 1927, Yuri Olesha’s Envy was celebrated by the Soviet establishment as a condemnation of the bourgeois psyche. But two years later Olesha came under suspicion when Communist officials realized that [...]
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The graphics used on this site were inspired by the work of Liubov Popova (1889-1924), a Russian artist and designer influenced by Constructivism and Futurism, as seen in her biography, by D.V. Sarabianov and N.L. Adaskina, Liubov Popova, translated by Marian Schwartz and published by Harry N. Abrams in 1990.