Ilf, Ilya; Evgeny Petrov;
The Golden Calf (The Adventures of Ostap Bender The Halarious Adventures of a Lovable Rouge."one of the great comic figures of modern literature") (Russian: Золотой телёнок)
Pyramid Books 1973 (orig transl 1961), 396 pages
ISBN 0515029920
topics: | humour | russia | translation
w: Ilf and Petrov Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg (Russian: Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг), 1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev or Katayev (Russian: Евгений Петрович Катаев), 1903–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They did much of their writing together, and are almost always referred to as "Ilf and Petrov". They became extremely popular for their two satirical novels: The Twelve Chairs and its sequel, The Little Golden Calf. The two texts are connected by their main character, a con man Ostap Bender out in pursuit of elusive riches.