Yuri Olesha

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Russian novelist
February 19, 1899 – May 10, 1960

influenced by
H.G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Leo Tolstoy.

friends with
Ilf and Petrov, Isaac Babel, and Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky

do not miss
Envy

case in point
"How sweet is my life ... ta-rá! ta-rá ... my bowels are flexing ... rá-ta-tá-ta-ra-rí ... the juices are flowing just right, straight through ... ra-tí-ta-doo-da-tá ... squeeze, bowels, squeeze ... tram-ba-ba-boom!" (from Envy)

some other things this author has written
Envy
Three Fat Men
Love and Other Stories
The Cherrystone
No Day Without a Line