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Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf [1] (born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg; Russian: Иехи́ел-Лейб Арьевич Фа́йнзильберг; [2] 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1897 – 13 April 1937) was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeny Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s.
- How Their Collaboration Began
- The Twelve Chairs
- Censorship and American Road Trip
Ilf and Petrov met in Moscow in 1925. The former was 28 and the latter 23. Both worked for Gudok(The Whistle) magazine, editing articles and writing satirical sketches. In their Double Autobiographythe novelists joked that "the author was born twice": In 1897 and 1903, and "began to lead a double life" from a young age. The Jewish boy, Ilf, was the...
That novel was the legendary The Twelve Chairs, which was published in 1927 in a record space of time. It is astonishing that the censors approved this subtle satire directed against the new Soviet order. Here, for instance, is one of the jokes in the novel: "Where would you go? You have no reason to hurry. The GPU will find you themselves." (The G...
After the enormous success of The Twelve Chairs, Ilf and Petrov went on to write a continuation of the adventures of Ostap Bender in 1931. The book was titled The Little Golden Calf. But while their first novel had easily cleared all the hurdles imposed by censorship, in the 1930s the functionaries overseeing literary output discerned a "lampoon ag...
Jan 20, 2017 · Il'ia Erenburg, speaking not only for “victors” but for Soviet readers generally, echoes this view, praising Il'f and Petrov for allowing “people [to] laugh in very hard times.” Il'ia Erenburg, “Iz knigi,” in G. Munblit and A. Raskin, eds., Sbornik vospominanii ob I. Il'fe i E. Petrove (Moscow, 1963), 186.
The Golden Calf: A Novel. Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf, Evgeniĭ Petrov. Open Letter Books, 2009 - Fiction - 336 pages. "A remarkably funny book written by a remarkable pair of collaborators."--. New York Times....
As a creative team, Ilf and Petrov brought together knowledge of elite culture and lower-class speech and expectations, the clashes between different social groups that shaped so much of the discourse of the 1920s in the Soviet Union and often bloomed into the rhetorical violence of the 1930s.
Ilya Ilf died of tuberculosis on 13 April 1937. After that, Petrov wrote for the newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta and the magazine Ogonyok and produced film scenarios. Petrov died in a plane crash on 2 July 1942 while working as a war correspondent in Crimea.
Ilya Ilf has 102 books on Goodreads with 79882 ratings. Ilya Ilf’s most popular book is The Twelve Chairs.
