Extraordinary stories

Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov are familiar to the readers, first of all, according to their illustrious dilogy about the adventures of a charming tramp and adventurer Ostap Bender. Meanwhile, in the creative heritage of satirics dozens of brilliant stories and feuilletons, which remained in the shadow of their famous novels. The real edition included stories and essays written in the 1930s, as well as the satirical story “Bright Personality” and the cycles of grotesque short stories “Extraordinary stories from the life of the city of Kolokolamsk” and “1001 days, or New Scheherazad”. These works became a real school on the way to the Golden Calf, in which the motives and images of the small prose of writers came to life. The extraordinary stories “about all sorts of curioses and blunders” were a fantastic mirror of the era, for the image of which the authors did not spare satirical colors - from good -natured humor and mischievous jokes to caustic sarcasm