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The Golden Calf

Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov

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

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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.


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009