Yevgeny Petrov Livres

The funniest novel of the Soviet era, this translation is based on the uncensored original thus restoring missing passages. Set during the New Economic Policy, con man Ostap Bender and his merry band of mischief makers set of on a raucously funny jaunt across the 'wild west' of the early Soviet Union. Their mark is Alexander Koreiko, another shady figure who exploited the corruption and chaos of the NEP to become an underground millionaire. Once Bender hears of Koreiko, the chase is on.

Long recognised as a timeless comic masterpiece-it inspired a Mel Brooks film a half century after its publication-The Twelve Chairs appears now in a lively new translation by Anne O. Fisher. Fisher, the most gifted interpreter of Ilf and Petrov in the English language, balances fidelity to the text and the authors' characteristic, deeply resonant humour.

Дилогия Ильфа и Петрова о Великом Комбинаторе Остапе Бендере.

Содерж.: "Одноэтажная Америка" / В. Познер. "Одноэтажная Америка" / Б. Кан

Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman eking out a living in the provinces, has returned to his hometown in search of the jewels his mother-in-law hid in one of a set of twelve identical dining room chairs to avoid confiscation by Soviet officials. Now the chairs themselves have been scattered to the four winds. Enter Ostap Bender, the smooth operator--an inveterate con artist and one of the most iconic figures in Russian literature--who volunteers his services for a generous take of the profits. The adventures of this unlikely pair take them across the fledgling Soviet state, from the provinces to Moscow to the peaks of the Transcaucasian Mountains.

Осенью 1935-го Ильф и Петров были командированы в Соединенные Штаты как корреспонденты газеты "Правда". Трудно сказать, чем именно руководствовалось высшее начальство, посылая сатириков в самую гущу капитализма. Скорее всего, от них ждали злобной, уничтожающей сатиры на "страну кока-колы", но получилась умная, справедливая, доброжелательная книга...