Long recognised as a timeless comic masterpiece-it inspired a Mel Brooks film a half century after its publication-The Twelve Chairs appears now in a lively new translation by Anne O. Fisher. Fisher, the most gifted interpreter of Ilf and Petrov in the English language, balances fidelity to the text and the authors' characteristic, deeply resonant humour.
Obsah: Černoch Petra Veľkého. Román v listoch. Poviedky nebohého Ivana Petroviča Belkina (Výstrel. Metelica. Truhlár. Staničný dozorca. Sedliacka slečna). Dejiny obce Goriuchina. Roslavlev. Dubrovskij. Piková dáma. Kirdžali. Egyptské noci. Kapitánova dcéra.
The funniest novel of the Soviet era, this translation is based on the uncensored original thus restoring missing passages. Set during the New Economic Policy, con man Ostap Bender and his merry band of mischief makers set of on a raucously funny jaunt across the 'wild west' of the early Soviet Union. Their mark is Alexander Koreiko, another shady figure who exploited the corruption and chaos of the NEP to become an underground millionaire. Once Bender hears of Koreiko, the chase is on.
"A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" de Alexander Solzhenitsyn retrata un día en un campo de trabajo forzado en Siberia durante la era estalinista. A través de la vida cotidiana de Ivan Denisovich, el autor critica duramente el régimen de Stalin, mostrando la lucha por la supervivencia en condiciones extremas.