Joeri Oljesja, 1958
Joeri Karlovich Oljesja (Russian: Юрий Карлович Олеша) (Odessa, March 3, 1899 - Moscow, May 10, 1960) was a Russian writer. He is considered to be one of the greatest Soviet era writers and one of the few who was able to write in the work of writing the censorship of sustainable artistic value. Together with Ilf and Petrov, Isaak Babel and Konstantin Paustovski, he is counted at Odessa's writer's school. Life and work Oljejaja was born in Ukraine as the son of a Polish official. He studied law at the University of Odessa but failed to complete that study because of the Russian Civil War and Famine. In 1922 he went to Moscow and became a journalist and writer.
Oil jelly left a relatively small oeuvre. He debuted in 1924 with the charming, fantastic novel for children The Three Sacks.
Oljesja then established his name in the literature with the short novel Afgunst (1927, published in 1980 in Dutch translation within the series Russian Miniatures). Afgunst is a story without real plot, dealing with the difference between the old and the new world. What the book has kept alive, however, is not the content, but especially the fresh, dynamic style that clad the simple story structure. Oljesja himself spoke of "magic photography". Charles B. Timmer (translator of the book in Dutch) wrote: "Oljesja let the reader mainly participate in a fragile reality". Envy was also called a masterpiece by Charles of the Reve.
After 1930, his drama of List of Benefits (on the boards by Vsevolod Meyerhold) was banned by the censorship, Oljesja's literary career came to an early end. Broken by alcoholism, he died in a heart attack in 1960. Oilseed was buried in Moscow at the Novode Vitsji Cemetery, which belongs to the Novode Vitsji Monastery.
In 1965, his journal Nulla dies sine linea appeared in posthumously. Literature and sources
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