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The Fall of Paris, a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg (1942)
Stalin Prize for Literature (1942, USSR)
Publishers: France - EDITIONS D'HIER ET D'AUJOURD'HUI (1964), MESSIDOR (1989), Germany - AUFBAU-VERLAG (1987), BUCHCLUB 65 (1988), Turkey - SOSYAL YAYINLAR (1975), EVRENSEL BASIM YAYIN (2002), USA/UK - MAY FAIR BOOKS (1962), SIMON PUBLICATIONS (2002)
In 1940 Ilya Ehrenburg spent some time in Paris, then occupied by German troops. His novel The Fall of Paris (written in 1942) deals with the decay of French society from 1935 to 1940, and also presents an excellent eye-witness account of the Occupation.
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Envy, a novel by Yuri Olesha
Rights sold / Published by (rights may be available): Czech Republic - Melantrich, Svět Sovětů, Denmark - Akademisk Boghandel, France - Fayard, L'Age d'Homme, Hungary - Európa, Germany – Suhrkamp, Greece - Antipodes, Italy - Roma, Einaudi, Carbonio Editore, Israel - Keter, Latvia - Literatūras Kombains, Netherlands - Van Oorschot, Poland - Państwowy In-t Wydawniczy, Spain - Acantilado, Turkey - Kırmızı Kedi, Merkez Kitaplar, English - Norton, New York Review Books Classics
The central of Olesha's famous novel is the fate of the intelligentsia in Russia’s postrevolutionary society. Olesha’s obvious enthusiasm for the new state of affairs did not hinder him from seeing and conveying to the reader the dramatic clash between the rational industrial state and the creative aspirations of Nikolay Kavalerov, one of the main characters in the novel. This clash is also echoed in Kavalerov himself: he has talent and creative potential, but he throws it away. Envy is one of a number of 20th-century Russian novels in which the protagonists clash with Soviet reality and as a result find themselves marginalized.
In his best novel Envy, all wry humor and narrowed eyes, Olesha presents two sides of the same coin: a self-satisfied sausage king and a drunken failure the former picks up in the street. Poetic and satiric and quite an achievement, it is a novel everyone should read.” —Flavorwire
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