Rights sold / Published by (rights may be available): Bulgaria - Narodna kultura, Czech Republic - Odeon, France - L'Age d'Homme, Israel - Keter, Poland - Czytelnik, Spain - Siruela, English - Northwestern University Press, Ardis/Ann Arbor,

Assembled from Olesha’s numerous notebooks after his death, the book resembles a memoir, but it is in fact a mix of sketches, essays, and other forms of writing that defies categorization. It is often compared to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s equally complex The Diary of a Writer.