Ilf and Petrov | |
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 Ilf and Petrov, 1929 | |
| Born | Ilf: Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Feinsilberg 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1897 Petrov: Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev December 13 [O.S. November 30] 1902 Odessa, Russian Empire (now Odesa, Ukraine) |
| Died | Ilf: 13 April 1937 Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) Petrov: 2 July 1942 Rostov Oblast, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Occupation | Novelists, short story writers |
| Notable works | The Twelve Chairs The Little Golden Calf One-storied America |
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg or Russian: Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг, 1897–1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Katayev or Russian: Евгений Петрович Катаев, 1902–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They did much of their writing together, and are almost always referred to as "Ilf and Petrov". They were natives of Odessa.
The duo were arguably the most popular satirical writers in the Soviet period.[1] representatives of the "Odessa School" of humorist writers,[2] and some of the very prominent, mostly Jewish odessit (Odessa native) cultural figures along with Isaac Babel and Leonid Utesov, who moved to work in the Soviet capital after the abolition of restrictions on Jewish residence in the Pale of Settlement.[3][4]
- ^ Smith, Alexandra (2003). "Il'ia Il'f (15 October 1897-13 April 1937) and Evgenii Petrov (13 December 1903-2 July 1942)". In Rydel, Christine (ed.). Russian prose writers between the world wars. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 272. Gale. OCLC 941455049.
- ^ Sabatos, Charles (2001). "Crossing the "Exaggerated Boundaries" of Black Sea Culture: Turkish Themes in the Work of Odessa Natives Ilf and Petrov". New Perspectives on Turkey. 24: 83–104. doi:10.1017/s0896634600003502. ISSN 0896-6346. S2CID 151561800.
- ^ Tanny, Jarrod (2011). City of rogues and schnorrers : Russia's Jews and the myth of old Odessa. Indiana University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-253-22328-9. OCLC 663954283.
- ^ Fowler, Mayhill Courtney (2017). Beau monde on empire's edge : state and stage in Soviet Ukraine. Toronto. ISBN 978-1-4875-1343-6. OCLC 985346889.
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