Ilya Ilf

The Twelve Chairs (1997)

Good fun. It feels a bit dated, but that may be due to me being a Romanian and reading a 1960 English translation of a 1927 Russian text, and losing some of the original flavor along the way. Still, it is easy to see why Twelve Chairs is considered a classic, both inside and outside the Soviet ...

Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers (2006)