Ilf and Petrov's American road trip : the 1935 travelogue of two Soviet writers / Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov ; edited by Erika Wolf ; with texts by Aleksandr Rodchenko and Aleksandra Ilf ; translated by Anne O. Fisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1897-1937.

Contributor:

Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942.

Wolf, Erika, 1963-

Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, 1891-1956.

Ilʹf, A. I. (Aleksandra I.)

Fisher, Anne O.

Standardized Title:

Odnoėtazhnai͡a Amerika. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942.

Ilʹf, Ilʹi͡a, 1897-1937.

Automobile travel.

History.

Travel.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1897-1937--Travel--United States.

Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡.

Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942--Travel--United States.

Petrov, Evgeniĭ.

Automobile travel--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xv, 158 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cabinet Books : Princeton Architectural Press, [2007]

Summary:

In 1935, well into the era of communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S posing as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through the lens of a Leica camera and humorous impressions of Americana in their notebooks. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost work -- filled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographs -- is now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip, the first English publication.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157).

ISBN:

1568986009

OCLC:

64770903

Publisher Number:

9781568986005