Auteur: Evgeny Petrov

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Ilya Ilf (1897–1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903–1942) were the pseudonyms of Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg and Evgeny Petrovich Katayev, a pair of Soviet writers who met in Moscow in the 1920s while working on the staff of a newspaper that was distributed to railway workers. The foremost comic novelists of the early Soviet Union (invariably referred to as Ilf & Petrov), the pair collaborated together for a dozen years, writing two of the most revered and loved Russian novels, The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf, as well as various humorous pieces for Pravda and other magazines. Their collaboration came to an end following the death of Ilya Ilf in 1937he had contracted tuberculosis while the pair was traveling the United States researching the book that eventually became Little Golden America.Konstantin Gurevich is a graduate of Moscow State University and the University of Texas at Austin. He translates with his wife, Helen Anderson. Both are librarians at the University of Rochester.Helen Anderson studied Russian language and literature at Mc Gill University in Montréal. She translates with her husband, Konstantin Gurevich.




4 Ebooks par Evgeny Petrov

Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov: The Golden Calf
‘A remarkably funny book written by a remarkable pair of collaborators.’New York Times Ostap Bender, the ‘grand strategist, ‘ is a con man on the make in the Soviet Union during the New Economic Poli …
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Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov: Twelve Chairs
Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petro …
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