Lo spettacolo della memoria: saggi e ricordi
The twelve chairs: a novel
by Petrov, Evgenij, Fisher, Anne O., Ilʹf, Ilʹja
fromNorthwestern world classics
The twelve chairs: a novel
by Ilʹf, Ilʹi︠a︡, Petrov, Evgeniĭ, Fisher, Anne O.
fromNorthwestern world classics
"Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman eking out a living in the provinces, has returned to his hometown in search of the jewels his mother-in-law hid in one of a set of twelve identical dining room chairs to avoid confiscation by Soviet officials. Now the chairs th…
Reframing russian modernism
"In Mapping St. Petersburg, Julie Buckler traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a "conceptual hierarchy" to a living cultural system - a topography expressed not only by the city's physical structures but also by the literary texts that have helped create it."--J…
