![]() A brilliant satire of the early years of the Soviet Union, as well as the inspiration for a Mel Brooks film, The Twelve Chairs retains its universal appeal. On their quest they encounter a variety of characters, from opportunistic Soviet bureaucrats to aging survivors of the old propertied classes, each one more selfish, venal, and bungling than the last. The search for the chairs takes them from the provinces of Moscow to the wilds of the Transcaucasus mountains. ![]() The novel’s iconic hero, Ostap Bender, an unemployed con artist living by his wits, joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to look for a cache of missing jewels hidden in chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The Twelve Chairs ( Czech: Dvanáct kesel Polish: Dwanacie krzese) is a 1933 Czechoslovak - Polish comedy film directed by Martin Fri and Micha Waszyski 1 freely based on the eponymous 1928 novel by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. ![]() ![]() More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov’s Russian classic fully to life. Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg) (1897-1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeni Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev/Katayev) (1902-1942) were two Soviet prose autho. ![]()
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