Yuriy Karlovich Олешу (1899-1960) in the circle of writers-contemporaries was named "king of metaphors". Олеша was not able to write "darkly and languidly", long and boring, his prose sparkles brilliant characters and aphorisms, how hardly not every indention on a capacity and completeness is equivalent to the short story.Roman "Envy" (1927) is a top of work of Олеши and, undoubtedly, one of tops of Russian literature of the XX century. The stories of Yuriy Олеши and book "Not a day without entered in collection also lines" are diary records being, in fact, thin and deep эссеистикой of acute master of style and sensitive man.