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"Los tres gordinflones" (The Three Fat Men), by Yuri Olesha — Gente Nueva / Editorial Progreso, 1974
Book
Illustrated children's book (hardcover with pictorial dust jacket), Spanish translation of Yuri Olesha's Soviet novel. The jacket depicts story characters — an acrobat in a green neckerchief, a girl in a red dress, a red-haired man, and a scholar above an ochre title band, with the three fat men tumbling below — under the title "LOS TRES GORDINFLONES" and the author's name "Yuri Olesha." Cloth binding visible at the spine foot.
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Front: "Yuri Olesha"; "LOS TRES GORDINFLONES." Imprint (Gente Nueva / Editorial Progreso) and 1974 date per the title page/colophon.
Yuri Olesha
A. Herráiz
Moscow
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
1974
Poor
Yuri Olesha
author
Editorial Progreso
Editorial Gente Nueva
Moscow
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
publication
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
attribution, use
Los tres gordinflones — the adventures of a scholar, an acrobat, a girl, and an armorer against three heartless fat men who oppress their subjects from a palace — was Yuri Olesha's greatest success and is a classic of Soviet children's literature. First published 1924, it is a revolutionary fairy tale centered on the overthrow of three tyrannical rulers. This 1974 edition is a co-edition of Cuba's Editorial Gente Nueva and Moscow's Editorial Progreso — a characteristic Soviet–Cuban collaboration that supplied Soviet children's classics to Cuban readers in Spanish. Translation attributed to A. Herráiz (the standard Progreso translation).