← Ilya IlfOne-Storied Americaby Ilya IlfTravel narrative documenting the absurdities of American capitalism and consumer cultureFind on Amazon↗About the authorIlya IlfSoviet author who co-wrote with Yevgeny Petrov two of the funniest novels in the Russian language. The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf follow the comic con man Ostap Bender through the chaos of Soviet modernization.More by Ilya IlfThe Twelve ChairsComic novel about con artists pursuing a valuable chair hidden in a provincial town→The Golden CalfPicaresque sequel continuing the adventures of scheming swindlers across the Soviet landscape→Notes of a Film Director→Notebooks→