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Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip PB

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Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip PB

In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost work filled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographs is now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip, the first English translation.
From Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip:
"The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image."
A Cabinet Book published by Princeton Architectural Press
Country USA
Brand Princeton Architectural Press
Manufacturer Princeton Architectural Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781616892524
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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