5/20/2018 Plot Summary of Yuri Olesha's "Envy"

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Andrei Babichev, a respected and successful hero of the Soviet food industry, takes in Nikolai Kavalerov,an aimless drifter, and tries to help him. Kavalerov--irresponsible, self-centered and deluded about hisown worth--dreams of personal glory and soon comes to envy and despise his host. Kavalerov oins upwith Andrei!s brother, "van, who claims to have created an #$phelia machine# to annihilate his enemies.%ogether, Kavalerov and "van cook up a #conspiracy of feelings# to spit in the face of the new era.Kavalerov even plots the murder of Babichev. "t all comes to nothing and, in the end, "van and Kavalerov

settle into a life of indifference, sharing the bed and embraces of the same fat, middle-aged widow.

5/20/2018 Plot Summary of Yuri Olesha's "Envy"

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