Esta serie narra las peripecias de uno de los estafadores más icónicos de la literatura, navegando por el caótico panorama de la Rusia postrevolucionaria. Junto a una variopinta galería de cómplices, este astuto "combinador" se ve envuelto en situaciones absurdas y cómicas mientras persigue fortunas esquivas. Con agudo ingenio y una perspicaz visión satírica de la sociedad, estas obras exponen las flaquezas y la hipocresía humanas con humor perdurable.
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.
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.
Дилогия Ильфа и Петрова о Великом Комбинаторе Остапе Бендере.