Irony of Fate

[Laura Olson]

        There are at least two that I know of. There's a 1993 kinopovest' (written
in narrative form) and a 1983 screenplay (in the form of a theatrical play).
Neither renders exactly what you see on screen but my students liked reading
the screenplay before seeing the film; they said it increased their
comprehension tremendously. In the 4th year reading/culture class where we
studied the film, this was the students' favorite text of the semester.
        The kinopovest' had a lot of extraneous prose which might be good for
students who read fairly fluently. As I recall, if you want all the texts of
the songs you have to consult the kinopovest', which has all of them, while
the play does not.

Emil' Braginskii and El'dar Riazanov, _Ironiia sud'by, ili s legkim parom.
Komedii dlia teatra._ M: Sovetskii pisatel', 1983.

E. Braginskii, E. Riazanov, _Ironiia sud'by, ili S legkim parom.
Kinopovest'._ M: Drofa, 1993.

--Laura Olson

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