Notebooks

Ilf notes not only draw the image of the writer, but the “voluntary” reflect the various phenomena of the era. In the 1920s, Ilf was a newspaper, a journalist, worked in the newspaper of the Railway Workers "Guuckoo". He went on near and distant business trips around the country, wrote reports. Its thick notebooks are filled with facts, observations and the smallest details. He is used to writing down. It is impossible for a journalist without this. The writer is even more so. “Be sure to write down,” Ilf often said to his co -author, “everything goes away, everything is forgotten.” I understand - I do not want to write down. I would like to stare, not to record. But then you need to force yourself.