Talks about the definitions of intertext and satire and how they are used by authors like Gogol and Dostoevsky and others. 1-19
Olesha's Babichev in his pince nez parodies Rodchnko and Osip Brik's art. 116
Kavelerov and Ivan parody the haves and have nots in the novel. 119
Babichev's sausage to be painted parodies the artist patron relationship in the west and the Soviet state-writer relationship. 120
Perpetual clash between verbal images and objects occur in Envy. Andrei is a lover of things (fat) and is good with objects and in life as opposed to Kavelerov who is not good at anything and "things hat him." 120
Worthless challenge to authority by Kavelerov as parody of literary conventions. 122
Ivan's ophelia challenges the soviet or avant garde's constructivist authority by echoing constructivist art like the worthlessness of Tatlin's monument. 126 All of the inventions parody revolt and even against Ivan. 127
Ivan spreads rumors like Christ parodying him. 127 he is even arrested and questioned similarly. 128
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