{"id":260186,"date":"2008-02-11T13:58:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/02\/11\/ilf-petrovs-road-trip\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:35","slug":"ilf-petrovs-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/02\/11\/ilf-petrovs-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilf & Petrov's Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, the Literary Saloon<\/a> wrote about a documentary recreating Ilf & Petrov’s trip across America. From The Moscow Times<\/i>“:<\/p>\n

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In 1935, satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov drove from New York to the Mexican border and back in a Ford. They spoke only schoolboy English and couldn’t drive, but these obstacles weren’t allowed to stand in the way of their commission from Pravda<\/i> newspaper to write a book on the United States. Accompanied by a left-wing American couple — the wife driving and the Russian-speaking husband interpreting — they applied their comic talents to such strange phenomena as drugstores, ham and eggs, striptease shows and chewing gum advertisements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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More than 70 years later, a crew from Channel One repeated Ilf and Petrov’s journey for a new documentary series, also titled One-Story America,<\/i> which starts Feb. 11.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Unfortunately, The Moscow News<\/i> website<\/a> expired and “is pending renewal or deletion.” Not so good . . .)<\/p>\n

Ilf and Petrov were an amazing duo writing in the 30s, and are most well-known for The Twelve Chairs<\/i><\/a> (available from Northwestern) and The Golden Calf<\/i> (which Helen Anderson and Konstantin Gurevich are retranslating for Open Letter—more on that in the near future). <\/p>\n

Princeton Architectural Press reissued Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers<\/i><\/a> in October 2006, and in a remarkable testament to the hipness of Entertainment Weekly<\/i>, this was featured on the EW<\/i> “Must List” shortly after publication. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, the Literary Saloon wrote about a documentary recreating Ilf & Petrov’s trip across America. From The Moscow Times“: In 1935, satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov drove from New York to the Mexican border and back in a Ford. They spoke only schoolboy English and couldn’t drive, but these obstacles weren’t allowed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,10246,1646],"class_list":["post-260186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-ilf-and-petrov","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327006,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260186\/revisions\/327006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}