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Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers

Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers

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Authors: Evgeny Petrov, Ilya Ilf
Creator: Erika Wolf
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Category: Book

Buy New: $62.67
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Seller: any_book
Sales Rank: 497,344

Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 6.7 x 0.9

ISBN: 1568986009
EAN: 9781568986005
ASIN: 1568986009

Publication Date: August 31, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Product Description
In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost workfilled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographsis now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip, the first English translation.

From Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip:
"The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image."

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