{"id":274666,"date":"2009-10-28T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/10\/28\/starred-review-from-pw\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:19","slug":"starred-review-from-pw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/10\/28\/starred-review-from-pw\/","title":{"rendered":"Starred review from PW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our release of <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/17-ilf\"><em>The Golden Calf<\/em> by Ilf &amp; Petrov<\/a> is only a few weeks away, and <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> has already run a splendid and starred review (and our first starred review in <em>PW<\/em>, at that):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A hilarious blend of absurdist, futurist and surrealist sensibilities, this new (and only complete) translation of Ilf and Petrov&#8217;s novel . . . is a highly animated tale of a con artist&#8217;s journey through the cities and hinterlands of Soviet Russia. . . . It&#8217;s an invigorating journey through innumerable paradoxes, dreams and burlesque routines, and though it&#8217;s intensely chaotic (at times to dizzying effect), this is a finely translated edition of a triumphant literary experiment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6703535.html?industryid=47141\">full review<\/a> (about halfway down the page), and, as always, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/17-ilf\">pre-order<\/a> the book now . . .<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raintaxi.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/347.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our release of The Golden Calf by Ilf &amp; Petrov is only a few weeks away, and Publishers Weekly has already run a splendid and starred review (and our first starred review in PW, at that): A hilarious blend of absurdist, futurist and surrealist sensibilities, this new (and only complete) translation of Ilf and Petrov&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[23636,28246,4506,28256,1946,1646],"class_list":["post-274666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-golden-calf","tag-ilf","tag-njf","tag-petrov","tag-publishers-weekly","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274666","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313106,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274666\/revisions\/313106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}