title: Из заметок о литературе и литературной жизни 1920-х годов: две гипотезы
abstract: The paper puts forward two hypotheses on particular issues associated with prominent literary phenomena of the 1920s. Its first part is devoted to the interpretation of a remark from a novel “Envy” (1927) by Yury Olesha. The hero of the novel asks another one an absurd and unexpected question – whether he likes olives? The text clarifying the meaning of the question is supposedly the introductory article by a famous scholar and expert in the history of theatre Nicholas Evreinov, prefacing the bo
journal: Культура и текст