“I’m a Beggar in This Frightful New World”: Between Disfiguring and Fashioning of Self in Olesha’s Fictional Autobiography

This article anayses the trajectory of Iurii Olesha’s reinvention of the self through his autobiographical hero in the novel Zavist' [Envy, 1927] and two plays, Zagovor chuvstv [The Conspiracy of Feelings, 1929] and Nishchii ili smert' Zanda [The Beggar, or the Death of Zand, 1930–32]. Thi...

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Main Author: Polina Maksimovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - Università di Padova 2019-12-01
Series:Avtobiografija
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Online Access:https://www.avtobiografija.com/index.php/avtobiografija/article/view/199