Summary
Ilj Iljf, Evgenij Petrov: The Golden Calf
The stellar ten-year joint work of Iljf and Petrov, two of the most famous Soviet humorists and satirists of the 20s and 30s of the last century, in a time of revolutionary changes, when their country faced the gigantic task of building a new world, gave birth to numerous sharp and hilariously humorous humor and satires. Stale spiritual toadstool, inveterate petty bourgeoisie, parasitic bureaucracy, sick careerists, greedy simpletons, petty troublemakers and mutineers... grown up under the auspices of new economic policy, proletkult and new social order, they obtrusively offered themselves and were the favorite subject of their roaring grotesques. Equally, the hero of their two most famous novels "12 Chairs" and "The Golden Calf" - the incorrigible swindler and deceiver, the great combiner Ostap Bender - is still very relevant today and is still one of the most popular characters in Russian prose.
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