Ilf and Petrov
Soviet writing duo
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg or Russian: Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг, 1897–1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Katayev or Russian: Евгений Петрович Катаев, 1902–1942) were two Soviet authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They usually wrote together. They are almost always called "Ilf and Petrov". They were natives of Odessa.
Ilf and Petrov | |
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 Ilf and Petrov | |
| Born | Odessa, Russian Empire (now Odesa, Ukraine) |
| Died | Moscow, Soviet Union (Ilf) Rostov Oblast, Soviet Union (Petrov) |
| Occupation | Novelists, short story writers |
| Notable works | The Twelve Chairs The Little Golden Calf One-storied America |
The two were probably the most popular satirical writers from the Soviet Union.[1] They were probably the most important Jewish odessit (Odessa native) people, along with Isaac Babel and Leonid Utesov.[2][3]
Script authors
change- Woman-Sycophant – comic play (1930, “Подхалимка”)[4]
- House-Barracks – screenplay (1931, “Барак”)[5]
- Strong Feeling – vaudeville (1933, “Сильное чувство”)[6]
- Under the Circus Dome – comic play (1934, with Valentin Kataev, “Под куполом цирка”)[7]
In culture
changeThe minor planet 3668 Ilfpetrov is named after them.[8]
Bibliography
change- Двенадцать стульев [The Twelve Chairs] (in Russian), 1928
- The Twelve Chairs, Northwestern University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8101-1484-4
- Золотой теленок [The Little Golden Calf], 1931
- Одноэтажная Америка [One-storied America], 1937
- Ilf, Ilya; Petrov, Eugene (1974) [1937], Little Golden America, Ishi Press International, ISBN 4871876748[9]
- Shrayer, Maxim D. (2018). "Ilya Ilf (1897–1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903–1942)". Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature: an Anthology. Academic Studies Press. pp. 349–362. ISBN 978-1-61811-792-2. OCLC 1121369372.
- Smith, Alexandra (2003). "Il'ia Il'f (15 October 1897-13 April 1937) and Evgenii Petrov (13 December 1903-2 July 1942)". In Rydel, Christine (ed.). Russian prose writers between the world wars. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 272. Gale. OCLC 941455049.
- Wolf, Erika, ed. (2006). Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers. Translated by Fisher, Anne O. New York: Cabinet Books and Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1-56898-600-9. (A translation of the eleven-part "American Photographs" photo-essay originally published in Ogoniok)
References
change- ↑ Smith, Alexandra (2003). "Il'ia Il'f (15 October 1897-13 April 1937) and Evgenii Petrov (13 December 1903-2 July 1942)". In Rydel, Christine (ed.). Russian prose writers between the world wars. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 272. Gale. OCLC 941455049.
- ↑ Tanny, Jarrod (2011). City of rogues and schnorrers : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa. Indiana University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-253-22328-9. OCLC 663954283.
- ↑ Fowler, Mayhill Courtney (2017). Beau monde on empire's edge : state and stage in Soviet Ukraine. Toronto. ISBN 978-1-4875-1343-6. OCLC 985346889.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ The play is staged at the Moscow music hall in 1930.
- ↑ The comedy Black Barrack was released in 1933..
- ↑ The play was staged at the Moscow Satire Theatre in 1933.
- ↑ Grigori Aleksandrov used this play for the script of the film Circus.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. p. 308. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
- ↑ Ilf, Ilya; Petrov, Eugene (1937). Little Golden America (PDF). New York: Farrar & Rinehart.
Other websites
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- The Twelve Chairs (full text), RU: Lib.
- Ilf, I; Petrov, E (2004). "American Photographs: The Road". Cabinet (14). (first chapter of "American Photographs," translated into English as Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip )
- Ilf and Petrov, life, work and background (in English and Russian), NL.
- "Conversations at Tea" by Ilf and Petrov. Humorous story about generation gap between an Old Bolshevik and his young son, United States.