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12 стульев. Золотой теленок. Одноэтажная Америка
Бывший светский лев Воробьянинов после революции стал делопроизводителем ЗАГСа. Умирающая теща поведала об огромном богатстве, спрятанном в один из стульев гостиного гарнитура. Он бросается на поиски, а с ним «великий комбинатор» и мошенник Остап Бендер. Лед тронулся!.. («Двенадцать стульев»).
Неунывающий Остап Бендер продолжает грандиозные авантюры! Жажда наживы привела его к подпольному миллионеру Корейко («Золотой теленок»).
Гамбургеры, автосалоны, реклама и пиво в банках. Путешествие глазами любимых сатириков! («Одноэтажная Америка»).
Неунывающий Остап Бендер продолжает грандиозные авантюры! Жажда наживы привела его к подпольному миллионеру Корейко («Золотой теленок»).
Гамбургеры, автосалоны, реклама и пиво в банках. Путешествие глазами любимых сатириков! («Одноэтажная Америка»).
- GenresFiction
940 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2019
About the author
Ilya Ilf
135 books211 followersIlya Ilf (Russian: Илья Ильф, pseudonym of Iehiel-Leyb (Ilya) Arnoldovich Faynzilberg was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s. Their duo was known simply as Ilf and Petrov. Together they published two popular comedy novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931), as well as a satirical book One-storied America (often translated as Little Golden America) that documented their journey through the United States between 1935 and 1936.
Ilf and Petrov became extremely popular for their two satirical novels: The Twelve Chairs and its sequel, The Little Golden Calf. The two texts are connected by their main character, Ostap Bender, a con man in pursuit of elusive riches. Both books follow exploits of Bender and his associates looking for treasure amidst the contemporary Soviet reality. They were written and are set in the relatively liberal era in Soviet history, the New Economic Policy of the 1920s. The main characters generally avoid contact with the apparently lax law enforcement. Their position outside the organized, goal-driven, productive Soviet society is emphasized. It also gives the authors a convenient platform from which to look at this society and to make fun of its less attractive and less Socialist aspects. These are among the most widely read and quoted books in Russian culture. The Twelve Chairs was adapted for ca. twenty movies, in the USSR (by Leonid Gaidai and by Mark Zakharov), in the US (in particular by Mel Brooks), and in other countries.
The two writers also traveled across the Great Depression-era United States. Ilf took many pictures throughout the journey, and the authors produced a photo essay entitled "American Photographs", published in Ogonyok magazine. Shortly after that they published the book Одноэтажная Америка (literally: "One-storied America"), translated as Little Golden America (an allusion to The Little Golden Calf). The first edition of the book did not include Ilf's photographs. Both the photo essay and the book document their adventures with their characteristic humor and playfulness. Notably, Ilf and Petrov were not afraid to praise many aspects of the American lifestyle in these works.
Ilf and Petrov became extremely popular for their two satirical novels: The Twelve Chairs and its sequel, The Little Golden Calf. The two texts are connected by their main character, Ostap Bender, a con man in pursuit of elusive riches. Both books follow exploits of Bender and his associates looking for treasure amidst the contemporary Soviet reality. They were written and are set in the relatively liberal era in Soviet history, the New Economic Policy of the 1920s. The main characters generally avoid contact with the apparently lax law enforcement. Their position outside the organized, goal-driven, productive Soviet society is emphasized. It also gives the authors a convenient platform from which to look at this society and to make fun of its less attractive and less Socialist aspects. These are among the most widely read and quoted books in Russian culture. The Twelve Chairs was adapted for ca. twenty movies, in the USSR (by Leonid Gaidai and by Mark Zakharov), in the US (in particular by Mel Brooks), and in other countries.
The two writers also traveled across the Great Depression-era United States. Ilf took many pictures throughout the journey, and the authors produced a photo essay entitled "American Photographs", published in Ogonyok magazine. Shortly after that they published the book Одноэтажная Америка (literally: "One-storied America"), translated as Little Golden America (an allusion to The Little Golden Calf). The first edition of the book did not include Ilf's photographs. Both the photo essay and the book document their adventures with their characteristic humor and playfulness. Notably, Ilf and Petrov were not afraid to praise many aspects of the American lifestyle in these works.
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October 7, 2024
вся погоня за драгоценностями оказывается бессмысленной, они давно исчезли, а усилия героев — пусты. Но в этом и заключается главный урок романа: настоящие ценности лежат не в материальных вещах, а в умении жить, смеяться и находить выходы даже из самых нелепых ситуаций. Ильф и Петров напоминают нам, что жизнь — это большая авантюра, и самое главное в ней — не то, что вы найдете в конце, а как вы пройдете этот путь.
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