Yuri Olesha is a famous prose master who firmly took his place in the literature of the twentieth century. His famous novels "Envy" and "Three Fat Men" are known and loved by many. They brought him real fame. It seemed that Olesha was destined to rise higher and higher on the wave of his success, but in the early thirties the writer fell silent for a long time. After reading the book, we learn a lot about the writer, about his personal life, his tragedy.