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1. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsBooks of Laughter and Forgetting: Satire and Trauma in the ...

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   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.

2. www.cabinetmagazine.org › issues › 69CABINET / The Business of Pleasure

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   Ilf and Petrov on the road, 1935. All images from Ilf and Petrov’s 1936 photo-essay “Amerikanskie fotografii.”. In October 1935, the Odessa-born satirists Ilya Ilf (1897–1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903–1942) set off on a road trip from New York to California and back.

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   • Smooth Operators: Russian Tricksters as Confidence Men
   • From Melville to Maurer: Nabokov and The American Con Man

   I n M ay 1950 , as part of his self-appointed mission to educate Nabokov in the ways of modern America, Edmund Wilson sent his Russian friend a batch of books, one of which was David Maurer's popular study of card-sharps, swindlers, and sting operators, The Big Con, first published in 1940. Wilson's description of the book is, in itself, revealing ...

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   The confidence man is widely acknowledged to be an exclusively American phenomenon, a product of both the New World frontier and the growing urban centres of antebellum America. The term itself was coined by journalists during the trial of William Thompson in 1849, who had been arrested in New York for robbing over a hundred people. Ingeniously, he...

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   While the criminal exploits of Hermann Karlovich, Martha Dreyer, Axel Rex, and Margot Peters all, ultimately, backfire – they are messy and unpredictable, shoddily thought out and subject to the vagaries of chance – Maurer's con men are consummate professionals. Criminal opportunists, they are canny strategists, ‘suave, slick and capable’, 41 whose...

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ilya_IlfIlya Ilf - Wikipedia

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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.

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   Jan 6, 2024 · Vertices: 669.6k. More model information. Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s. Their duo was known simply as Ilf and Petrov.

7. www.rbth.com › arts › 332757-ilf-petrov-sovietIlf and Petrov: The USSR’s most funny and daring writing duo

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   The two Odessans, Ilf and Petrov, met in Moscow and became inseparable, writing humorous stories and short novels. According to legend, they embarked on their first big work as "ghostwriters ...

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   Who is Ilya fainzilberg?

   • Ilya (=Elijah) Ilf was the pseudonum of Ilya Arnol'dovich Fainzilberg, born in Odessa in 1897. His father was a bank clerk, and he himself finished technical school in 1913, then worked at an architect's office, an airplane plant, and a hand-grenade factory (! - those were the days!), while writing humorous sketches for a local magazine.

   Ilya Il'f and Evgenii Petrov, The Twelve Chairs - Swarthmore College

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   Are Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov still alive?

   • They both died at a comparatively early age, and we can only guess how many more virtuoso novels they could have written. However, two of their works will ever remain in the "golden treasury" of Russian literary classics. The two friends, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, were born in Odessa, the humor capital of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine).

   Ilf and Petrov: The USSR’s most funny and daring writing duo

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   How did ILF become famous?

   • At the same time Ilf wrote poetry and, step by step, gained considerable stature among Odessa poets. In 1917, he began to work as a magazine editor and to write articles.

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9. forrester.domains.swarthmore.edu › ilf-petrovIlya Il'f and Evgenii Petrov - Swarthmore College

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   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.