Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip
The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
New York : Cabinet Books : Princeton Architectural Press, [2007]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xv, 158 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S 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 humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. 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 workfilled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographsis now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip , the first English translation.
From Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip :
"The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image."
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Other Authors:
Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942.
Петров, Евгений, 1903-1942.
Wolf, Erika, 1963-
Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, 1891-1956.
Родченко, Александр Михайлович, 1891-1956.
Ilʹf, A. I. (Aleksandra I.)
Ильф, А. И. (Александра И.)
Fisher, Anne O.
Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942.
Петров, Евгений, 1903-1942.
Wolf, Erika, 1963-
Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, 1891-1956.
Родченко, Александр Михайлович, 1891-1956.
Ilʹf, A. I. (Aleksandra I.)
Ильф, А. И. (Александра И.)
Fisher, Anne O.
Contents:
The Road -- The Small Town -- Americans -- At the Birthplace of Mark Twain -- The Desert -- Indians -- California -- Hollywood -- Advertising -- Negroes -- New York.
Subjects:
Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1897-1937 -- Travel -- United States.
Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942 -- Travel -- United States.
Automobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1897-1937 -- Travel -- United States.
Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942 -- Travel -- United States.
Automobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
ISBN:
1568986009 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRAVEL Writing Ilf | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157).
Translated from the Russian.
Translated from the Russian.