Il'f and Petrov

[Sasha Senderovich]

Your library probably has one of the copies from some kind of botched print
run. A quick check on my bookshelf of the 5-volume edition reveals that pp.
529-569 are there in the 4th volume of Il'f and Petrov. These pages contain
one half of "Prilozhenia" -- letters of Il'f  to his wife from America (pp.
531-568, whereas 569-579 are Petrov's letters).

Best,
Sasha Senderovich
Harvard Slavic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Hill" <s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 6:00 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Il'f and Petrov


> Dear colleagues:
>
> Any specialists in Il'f and Petrov out there might know the answer to two
> little
> mysteries.
>
> 1.  In Il'f and Petrov's "Sobranie sochinenii" (ed. Dement'ev, Kataev,
> Simonov, Galanov;
> 5 vols., izd. GIKhL,  1961- ), volume 4 contains "Odnoetazhnaia Amerika"
> and related
> texts.   In at least one library copy of  volume 4, it LACKS pages
> 529-564 (i.e., 36
> consecutive pages).
>
> Since the binding looks intact and undamaged, the incomplete volume does
> not appear
> to have been vandalized by a naughty Illinois student with a razor blade.
> I note also that
> all the earlier pages near the front end of vol. 4 appear to be intact and
> in proper
> sequence.
>
> One must conclude either that the Soviet printer committed a major binding
> mistake, or
> else a naughty Soviet censor decided in his wisdom that pp. 529-64 should
> not see the
> light of day, for some obscure reason...
>
> 2.  I recently saw a reference to Il'f and Petrov's  description of film
> director S
> M Eisenstein's Moscow apartment, supposedly published in
> "Odnoetazhnaia Amerika" (or perhaps in a related text published in the
> same volume with "1-etazh.Amer."?).  But in more than one edition of this
> travel account (includ. Charles Malamud's Engl. trans., re-titled "Little
> Golden America"), I can't seem to find any  description of the
> Eisensteinian
> residence.  Perhaps I missed it, or perhaps it was actually published
> somewhere else...
>
> Gratefully,
> Steven P Hill (Univ. of Illinois, USA).
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