Vladimir Pozner, Brian Kan, Ivan Urgant
"One-story America"
"One-story America" \u200b\u200bVladimir Posner
A few words about
It happened that I came to the Russian language later than you, reader. I will not explain why: this is a long story, and besides the long-lasting year.
Studying in the first year of the Bio-Soil Faculty of Moscow State University, I made friends with Semen Milakovsky, a person is very well-read, despite his seventeen years, who introduced me to Ilfom and Petrov, more precisely, with "twelve chairs". I got acquainted quite peculiar, reading me the page for a page almost in a whisper, during the summer practice, when there was no one next. It was the year of 1953, and, although Ilf and Petrov were not listed among the writers of prohibited, they were not particularly authorized: after 1937, the works of Ilf and Petrov were not reissued, apparently, no "twelve chairs", nor the "golden calf" They fited into the ideological canons of the country of the defeating workers and peasants.
Especially since it belonged to "One-story America", which I would like to say much.
In 1935, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov were submitted to the Pravda newspaper to the United States of America to write a book about this country. This is already surprising in itself (especially since Ilfi had relatives who had emigrated to America from Russia at one time). In the "Pravda", the main printed body of the WCP (b), nothing happened by chance. For what reasons were decided to send two Satyricis writers to America to then print their impressions on the pages of this ideological "Bible" of the party? We are unlikely to find out the answer to this question. Is it because only three years before the president of the USA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected, and diplomatic relations between the USSR and the United States were established? Because whether they were counting on the satirical talent of writers who will present the Soviet reader American capitalism "the corresponding" manner? Anyway, they went.
Arriving in New York, Ilf and Petrov held a month there, by setting up contacts and preparing for a trip. They who did not know the English language and did not know how to drive a car, managed to find an American married couple, which agreed to be their drivers translators, bought a new Ford and went. The journey lasted exactly sixty days. They drove out of New York, on the east coast, to California, on Western, and back, having visited twenty-five states and hundreds of cities and settlements, they met with an innumerable number of Americans and, returning home, wrote a book. The book is absolutely amazing for several reasons.
In it, forty-seven chapters, and it is known that seven chapters they wrote together, and twenty - separately. However, only a textbook specialist is able to determine which chapters wrote Ilf, and which Petrov. This is first.
Secondly, neither Ilf, nor Petrov, did not earlier in America and did not know English, which was already noted, but this did not hurt them uncommonly and to accurate the spirit of the country and the people. I, a man who grew up in America and read a lot of books about her, I believe that "one-story America" \u200b\u200bis not only the best book written by foreigners about America (with the exception of the study of de Tokville "On Democracy in America" \u200b\u200bof the middle of the XIX century), but in general one From the best "discoveries of America," John Steinbeck can compare with Charlie.
How did these two Odessans managed to figure out the hardest country for three months - for me a mystery. Today, rereading the "single-storey ...", you understand that, essentially, they are very small in what they are mistaken if they are not considered, of course, some of their estimates relating to, for example, jazz and American cinema.
And yet: it was 1935, the hardest time of the Great Depression, which had covered America, which had deprived of the work of millions of people, but neither Ilf, nor Petrov doubted the ability of the American people to surrender, overcome the crisis. Perhaps, they were mistaken only in one: comparing the Soviet Union and the United States, they invariably emphasized the advantages of the first country of socialism before the main country of capitalism: the first five-year plan was triaumented in the USSR, the country was clearly on the rise, a few, mass repressions knew about the horrors of violent collectivization. 1937-1938 were still ahead. As it seems to me, Ilf and Petrov sincerely believed in the advantages of Soviet socialism. Reaching the achievements of Americans and America, they were sincerely outraged by the social injustice of the American society, and, the praise of the USSR, they did not "worked out the number", and proudly emphasized the benefits of the country whose citizens they had happiness to be. Yes, they were mistaken - Well, not only they were mistaken.
* * *In 1961, when the five-volume collection of writings Ilf and Petrova came out, I first read the "One-story America".
Years have passed. I changed a lot of work - was the literary secretary of Samuel Yakovlevich Marshak, the responsible secretary of the magazines "Soviet Life", "satellite", the commentator of the main editorial office of broadcasting in the United States and England Goseradio. It was there, at the end of the seventies, I began to regularly perform on different channels of American television (this was done on a communications satellite, since I was unstarted). At about this time, I reread "single-storey ..." and then thought: how to greatly repeat the journey of Ilf and Petrov, but this time for television.
This dream seemed completely unreal. I knew that I would never be released from the country - at least, so I told me some kind of general rank with a bullishly population. As it turned out, the general was mistaken: no more non-rigging, the "iron curtain" fell, and the main obstacle to the exercise of the conceived. But it was necessary to go through many more years, fate had to write out intricate pretzel, had to coincide a different circumstance, stars and planets to settle down in a certain way so that everything came out.
It took the twenty-five years, but the dream was carried out: we are our television group - repeated the journey of Ilf and Petrov, removed the documentary "One-story America". In spite of everything, everything came true.
As my favorite Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol wrote: "Whoever says, and such incidents are in the world, rarely, but there are."
Gogol was right. Right.
Recognition and Warning Recognition
Recognition is that Brian Kan and Vladimir Pozner is not Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. The similarity is defined, of course, but only superficial: and they, and we journey in America, passing sixteen thousand kilometers from the east to the West and from the west to the East. And they, and we wrote about this topic with the same name - "One-story America". This similarity ends.
They are primary, we are secondary. They inspired us, and not the opposite. They are wonderful writers, you can say, classics, we, if the writers, are not the classics. Finally, Ilf and Petrov wrote together, which could not be said about Canna with Posner. And last: for Ilf and Petrova, the book "One-story America" \u200b\u200bwas the main and the only result of their travel. Our book consists of observations and reflections that have not included in the documentary, it is still secondary: it is travel notes made, as they say, following.
For Russians who were not read and did not even hear about the book Ilf and Petrov (and such as it turns out, surprisingly a lot), I want to say that, taking the name Ilf and Petrov for my book, we just wanted to emphasize their admiration for them, And putting the name of your book in quotes, we are the easiest to understand that it is not suitable for us and is actually a quote.
About how we arrived in New York and did not get into Cooperstown
We are in New York. We are our film crew, consisting of 12 people:
- director Valery Spirina, a man resembling a driving polar bear - first, with its dimensions, both in the sense of growth and weight, secondly, color and third, hacks: he is leisurely in movements and speech, looks On you a little removed blue eyes (blue-eyed polar bears are rarely found, but meet), but it is absolutely clear that it is not necessary to wake it up, it is more expensive.
- Owline operators Chernyaev and Mikhail Kozlov. Operators - the people are special. They, as a rule, saw everything and everyone knows. First of all, they know that the most important thing is a picture, that is, what they consider it necessary to shoot. Everything else is so, entourage. These gentlemen joined the entire trip to some semisteats, dranny T-shirts and sandals that clearly saw the best days. I can't say that they brushed in Arab terrorists, but the fact that they caused a certain alertness from the American public is a fact.
- Ivan's sound operator is not good, a man with a languid look, who spent in his free time on a cell phone with some incredible number of Moscow, and perhaps not Moscow girlfriends and fans. Apparently, it was so distracted from what was happening that he often recalled only at the last moment that it was necessary to "ohomic approxone" of this or that participant of the filming, and began to be fussily rushing between the equipment and the object, often dropping microphones and intimidated in wires.
- Grip ("Spec" on the technique) Vladimir Konoyne, a man of amazing calm, silent, from which he had an extraordinarily enjoyable confidence: everything he did, was done accurately and reliably. Low growth, a little completely complete, Kononymin was a universal favorite. It was he who came up with how to mount cameras on the body of our jeep on cunning suckers so that at any speed and with all weather and other conditions they stood as firmly and unshakable as Gibraltar.
- Executive producer Alena Copino. It is necessary to say about it. She was supposed to organize absolutely everything: to negotiate with the motels, where we had to spend the night, install contacts with all the objects of filming, get all the permissions, to carry out all financial calculations, settling the issues of car rental (and there were three), to select the entire newsreel of the thirties and not List. And still work by the translator. In a word, on the shoulders of this young and unusually fragile creature, the cargo was completely non-promotional. When something did not work, it doesn't matter what, all claims were addressed to her, Helen Sopino ...
"One-story America" \u200b\u200b- travel essays Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, the creators of the famous novels "twelve chairs" and "Golden Calleok". In the autumn of 1935, satyriki were sent to the United States as correspondents of the Pravda newspaper. They drove America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and back, and then, with the living experience and a sense of humor, they told about this journey in the book. Ilf and Petrov told about the life of small and large cities, about the most beautiful landscapes: Prairies, Mountains and National Parks, visited the White House and Indian Wigwam, told about American celebrities and the production of films in Hollywood, about Rodeo, Wrestling and American Football, about creating a light bulb , phonograph and electric chair and much more.
01. Part I. "From the window of the twenty-seventh floor." Chapter First Normandy. (16:14)
02. Chapter Second. The first evening in New York. (18:52)
03. Chapter Three. What can be seen from the hotel window. (15:08)
04. Chapter Fourth. Appetite leaves during food. (18:00)
05. Chapter Fifth. We are looking for an angel without wings. (19:34)
06. Chapter Six. Dad End mom. (15:09)
07. Head of the seventh. Electric chair. (26:16)
08. Head of the eighth. Big New York Arena. (19:37)
09. Chapter Ninth. We buy a car and leaving. (20:35)
10. Part II. "Through the eastern states." Chapter Tenth. On the road. (18:57)
11. Chapter Eleventh. Small city. (18:23)
12. Head of the twelfth. Big little city. (18:48)
13. Chapter thirteenth. Electric house Mr. Ripley. (21:40)
14. Chapter Fourteenth. America can not be caught by surprise. (24:32)
15. Fifteenth head. Dirborn. (18:47)
16. Chapter Sixteenth. Henry Ford. (24:02)
17. Head of the seventeenth. The terrible city of Chicago. (29:46)
18. Chapter Eighteenth. The best musicians in the world. (16:17)
19. Part III. "To the Pacific Ocean." Chapter nineteenth. In the homeland brand twe. (26:44)
20. Chapter twentieth. Soldier of marine infantry. (16:05)
21. Chapter Twenty First. Roberts and his wife. (23:42)
22. Chapter Twenty-Second. Santa Fe. (15:46)
23. Chapter Twenty-Third. Meeting with Indians. (23:30)
24. Chapter Twenty-Fourth. Day of misfortune. (22:14)
25. Chapter Twenty-Fifth. Desert. (20:04)
26. Chapter Twenty Sixth. Grand Cenon. (14:44)
27. Chapter Twenty Seventh. Man in red shirt. (28:14)
28. Chapter Twenty-Eight. Young Baptist. (15:07)
29. Chapter Twenty-Ninth. On the crest of the dam. (19:12)
30. Part IV. Golden State. Chapter thirtieth. Mrs Adams record. (25:52)
31. Chapter thirty first. San Francisco. (23:01)
32. Chapter thirty-second. American football. (21:18)
33. Chapter thirty-third. "Russian slide." (15:56)
34. Chapter thirty-fourth. Captain X. (26:25)
35. Chapter thirty-fifth. Four standards. (20:15)
36. Chapter thirty-sixth. God of Haltury. (28:28)
37. Chapter thirty-seventh. Hollywood fortress. (05:26)
38. Chapter thirty-eighth. Pray, weighed and pay!. (16:26)
39. Chapter thirty-ninth. Lady country. (19:52)
40. Part V. "Back to Atlantic." The chapter is forty. According to the old Spanish trail. (22:12)
41. Chapter Forty First. Day in Mexico. (20:24)
42. Chapter forty-second. New Year in San Antonio. (22:13)
43. Chapter Forty-Third. We enter the southern states. (21:13)
44. Chapter Forty Fourth. Black people. (23:34)
45. Chapter Forty Fifth. American democracy. (14:38)
46. \u200b\u200bChapter Forty Sixth. Restless life. (21:05)
Travel notes Ilf and Petrov "One-story America" \u200b\u200bwere published in 1937, more than seventy years ago. In the fall of 1935, Ilf and Petrov were sent to the United States as correspondents of the newspaper "True".
It is difficult to say what exactly the highest bosses were guided, sending satirists into the most thick of capitalism. Most likely, they were waiting for an evil, destroying satire to the "Coca-Cola Country", but turned out to be a smart, fair, benevolent book. She aroused a living interest among Soviet readers, until even an approximate idea of \u200b\u200bthe North American United States.
Further history of the book can not be called simple: it was published, they were prohibited, they were excreted from libraries, they stopped parts of the text.
As a rule, "One-story America" \u200b\u200bwas included in a few collections of writings Ilf and Petrov, individual editions were rarely appeared ("how would not happen!"). There are only two editions with Ilfian photo phistakes.
It is wonderful that the time has come when the desire to repeat the journey of Ilf and Petrov caused a documentary television series "One-story America" \u200b\u200bVladimir Posner (he conceived this project thirty years ago). In addition to the series, we received the book of travel notes of Posner and the American writer, Radiojournade Bryan Cana, with photos of Ivan Urgant.
In the series, worthy of all silence, feels respect for the original. Vladimir Pozner is constantly referring to Ilf and Petrov, Zorko, noticing the traits of similarities and differences in America's life then and now. It is known that Posner's television series filed great interest in the United States. And I gladly discovered that many of my friends-compatriots under the influence of the series reread the old "One-story America".
The current America is very interested in its history, including time, which was reflected in the book of Ilf and Petrov. Most recently, the exhibitions "American photos" of Ilfe are successful in several American universities. And in New York publishing published: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip. The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov(2007). This is the translation of the "Firekovskaya" publication of 1936, with numerous Ilfian pictures.
Good mutual interest is good for everyone.
However, modern America continues to remain "one-story".
Alexandra Ilf
A number of surnames and geographical names are given in accordance with modern spelling.
Part one
From the window of the 27th floor
"Normandy"
At nine o'clock from Paris, a special train comes to the Havur of Normandy passengers. The train goes without stopping and after three hours it is rolled into the building of the Gavra Marine Station. Passengers overlook the closed peer, they are at the top of this Way of La Track on Esca Latour, they pass a few halls, go closed from all sides to similarities and find themselves in a large lobby. Here they sit in the elevators and travel around their floors. This is already "Normandy". What is its appearance - passengers are unknown, because they did not see the steamer.
We entered the elevator, and a boy in a red jacket with golden buttons with elegant motion pressed a beautiful button. A new brilliant elevator rose a little up, stuck between the floors and suddenly moved down, not paying attention to the boy, who desperately pressed the buttons. Going to the three floors, instead of climbing two, we heard a painfully familiar phrase, uttered, however, in French: "The elevator does not work."
In my cabin we climbed the stairs, completely covered with a light green rubber carpet covered with a non-burning rubber carpet. The same material is eliminated by the corridors and the lobby of the steamer. Step is made soft and sweaty. It's nice. But truly begin to appreciate the advantages of rubber flooring during the pitch: the soles are like sticking to it. This, however, does not save from the seaside disease, but protects against falling.
The staircase was not at all shipping type - wide and color, with marches and platforms, the dimensions of which are quite acceptable for any home.
The cabin was also some kind of shipping. Spacious room with two windows, two wide wooden beds, armchairs, wall cabinets, tables, mirrors and all municipal benefits, up to the phone. And in general, Normandy looks like a steamer only in the storm - then it seems to go a little. And in quiet weather, this is a colossal hotel with a luxurious view of the sea, which suddenly broke down from the promenade of the trendy resort and at the speed of thirty miles per hour floated to America.
Deep downstairs, from the grounds of all floors, the accompanying shouting their latest greetings and wishes. They shouted in French, in English, in Spanish. They shouted in Russian too. A strange man in a black nautical uniform with a silver anchor and a shield of David on the sleeve, in beret and with a sad beard shouted something in Jewish. Then it turned out that this is a steam labison, which the General Transatlantic Company contains in service to meet the spiritual needs of some part of passengers. For another part, Catholic and Protestant priests are ready. Muslims, fire radaries and Soviet engineers are deprived of spiritual service. In this regard, the general transatlantic company provided them with themselves. On "Normandy" there is a fairly large Catholic church, illuminated extremely convenient for prayer with electric halves. The altar and religious images can be closed with special shields, and then the church automatically turns into Protestant. As for the rabbi with a sad beard, he was not allotted separately, and he makes his services in the children's room. For this purpose, the company gives him Tales and special drape, which it closes the bunnies and cats for a while.
The steamer came out of the harbor. There were crowds of people on the waterfront and the crowds stood crowds of people. Not accustomed to Normandy, and every flight of the transatlantic colossus causes public attention in Gavre. The French shore disappeared into the smoke of a cloudy day. By evening, Lights of Southampton were blocked. An hour and a half "Normandy" stood on the raid, taking passengers from England, surrounded from three sides to the distant mysterious light of an unfamiliar city. And then I went to the ocean, where the noisy in the invisible waves raised by the stormy wind began.
Everything trembled on the stern, where we were placed. Trembled decks, walls, portholes, sun loungers, glasses over a washbasin, washbasin itself. The vibration of the steamer was so strong that even such items were launched from which it was impossible to expect. For the first time in life, we heard how the towel sounds, soap, a carpet on the floor, paper on the table, curtains, a collar, thrown on the bed. It sounded and threatened everything that was in the cabin. It was enough for a passenger for a second to think and weaken the muscles of the face, as his teeth began to knock. All night it seemed that someone would break into the door, knocking in the window, laughs hard. We counted a hundred different sounds that our cabin published.
Normandy made his tenth flight between Europe and America. After the eleventh flight, she will go to the dock, it will differ from her feed, and the design deficiencies that cause vibration will be eliminated.
The sailor came in the morning and closed the portholes with metal shields tightly. The storm intensified. Little cargo ship with difficulty made his way to the French shores. Sometimes he disappeared behind the wave, and only the tips of his mast were visible.
For some reason, it seemed that the ocean road between the old and the new light was very revived, something and the matter would meet fun steamats, with music and flags. In fact, the ocean is a magnificent and deserted thing, and the shipment, which storms in four miles from Europe, was the only ship that we met in five days. Normandy swore slowly and important. She walked, almost without reducing the stroke, confidently leaving the high waves, who climbed onto it from all sides, and only sometimes dismissed the ocean uniform bows. It was not a struggle to make a meager creating human hands with the swirl of the element. It was a fight equal to equal.
This year marks 80 years old book Ilf and Petrov "One-story America"."One-story America" \u200b\u200bis a book created by Ilya Ilfom and Evgeny Petrov in 1935-1936. Published in 1937 in the Soviet Union. Full time (both authors and marital couple Adams from New York) on the new Ford the "noble mouse color" acquired America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and back for two months (the end of 1935 - the beginning of 1936).
On the pages of the book the authors:
Deep and detail reveal the usual life of the Americans of that time;
. Meet many American celebrities: Hemingway, Henry Ford, Morgan, Williams, Reed, Townsend, Steffens, etc.;
. Many cities and towns of America are described: New York, Chicago, Kansas, Oklahoma, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, El Paso, San Antonio, New Orleans and the capital of the USA - Washington;
. Attend Indian Vigvam and Mexican village;
. Periodically found with Russian emigrants, including milk in San Francisco;
. Talk about some national sports: Rodeo, Wrestling Wrestling, American Football and Mexican Corrida;
. Rise to the roof "Empire State Building" in New York and fall deep underground to the cave of Carlsbad;
. Describe in detail the unique American invention - the "Electric chair" of the Sing-Sing prison and the creation of the first light bulb and phonograph Edison;
. The beautiful Landscapes of America, located in Prairies, Mountains, National Parks, and even in deserts;
. We visit the White House, where President Roosevelt President Roosevelt with reporters took place;
. Tell details about the production of films in Hollywood.
Henry Ford and "Tin Lizzy". 1921.
A characteristic feature of the book is a minimum (more precisely, the absence of an absence) of ideological moments that for Stalin's time was simply exceptional phenomenon. Ilf and Petrov, being subtle, smart and insightful observers, amounted to a very objective picture of the United States and their inhabitants. There are repeatedly criticized such unsightly features as universal standardization and confusion, more precisely, the intellectual passivity of Americans, especially young people.
At the same time, the authors admire American roads and excellent service, a clear organization and pragmaticity in everyday life and in production. It was from the "One-story America", the Soviet reader first learned about publicity, life on credit and ideology of consumption (the head of the "Electric Domik Mr. Ripley").
History of creation
In September 1935, the correspondents of the newspaper "Pravda" Ilf and Petrov went to the United States of America. In those days, the US President was Franklin Roosevelt, which made a lot for rapprochement between the United States and the USSR. This allowed the authors to move freely around the country and close to get acquainted with the life of different layers of American society. In America, Ilf and Petrov lived three and a half months.
During this time, they twice crossed the country from the end to the end. Returning in the first days of February 1936 to Moscow, Ilf and Petrov reported in a conversation with the correspondent of the "literary newspaper", which will write a book about America. In fact, work on "One-story America" \u200b\u200bbegan in the United States. Essay "Normandy", which opens up the book, was written by Ilfom and Petrov shortly after arrival in America. Under the heading "Road to New York", he appeared with insignificant abbreviations in the "Pravda" on November 24, 1935.
"I would like to sign this picture:" This is America! "" (Photo I. Ilf)
During the stay of writers in America, "True" also published their essay "American meetings" (January 5, 1936), which in the book concludes the 25th chapter of the twenty "desert". The first brief notes about the trip Ilf and Petrov were published in 1936 in the magazine "Ogonos" called "American photos". The text was accompanied by about 150 American photographs Ilf, who captured the appearance of the country and portraits of people with whom Writers met in America.
"One-story America" \u200b\u200bwas written quite quickly - in the summer months of 1936. While the book was written, "True" published five more essays from her:
June 18 - "Journey to the country of bourgeois democracy";
. July 4 - New York;
. July 12 - "Electric gentlemen";
. September 5 - "Nice city of Hollywood";
. October 18 - "In Carmel".
In 1936, travel essays "One-story America" \u200b\u200bwere first published in the magazine "Banner". In 1937, they published a separate publication in Roman-Gazeta, in Goslitisdate and in the Publishing House "Soviet Writer". In the same year, the book was reprinted in Ivanovo, Khabarovsk, Smolensk.
Heroes and prototypes
Under the name of Adams, GENERAL ELECTRIC engineer Solomon Abramovich Trone (1872-1969) was displayed in the book (1872-1969), which played an important role in electrifying the USSR, and his spouse Florence Trone.
We met with the throne on one of my public lectures on the Soviet Union. Then, in the thirtieth year, we met in Moscow. He has already managed to work on Dneprostro, in Stalingrad and Chelyabinsk. Together with him in Moscow was his son from the first marriage, also an electrician engineer. The throne was exactly what he was drawn in "One-story America".
Before World War II, the beginning of which, as you probably, remember from the book, he predicted with a mistake of only one year, this fidget had time to visit and work in China, India and Switzerland. The last time we met with him at the end of the war. He was going to move from New York to Youngstown, which is in Ohio, to the relatives of his wife, derived in "One-story America" \u200b\u200bunder the name Becky. ... He was already a pretty sick person, old age gave herself to know, but in the soul he remained all the same "Mr. Adams" - an energetic, inquisitive, interesting interlocutor.
Having become acquainted with the manuscript of "One-story America", the throne jokingly stated that he was now with his wife "are ready to live under the name of Adams." Daughter of Truz Sasha (r. 1933), several times mentioned in the book as "Bebi", subsequently studied in Switzerland.
Reprint
In Soviet times, the book was reissued in 1947, 1961 and 1966, but in these publications, its text was political censored. So, the text disappeared from Stalin and other political figures. An even more edit the text was subjected to publishing in the "Collection of Works" Ilf and Petrov in 1961. For example, a sympathetic mention of the crossing of the Lidrberg Charles from America to Europe has disappeared after the abduction and murder of his son, which is probably due to the followed by Lindrberg's cooperation with the Nazis.
In 2003, a new, restored for the original source was published, the editors of the book, including those unknown earlier materials from the personal archive of Alexandra Ilichnaya Ilf (daughter I. Ilf). For the first time, letters that Ilfle sent his wife and daughter in the course of the journey, and the photos made by him in the United States are published.
Together with Petrov's letters, they constitute a kind of travel diary and naturally complement the book. In the 2000s, the exhibitions of "American photos" of Ilf, and the translation of the "Firekovskaya" publication of the 1936 year was published in New York, with numerous Ilfian pictures.
Hot doggy trade in New York, 1936.
Translations
"One-story America" \u200b\u200bwas repeatedly published in Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Czech, Serbian, French, Italian and other languages. In the US, "One-story America" \u200b\u200bcame out in 1937, after the death of Ilf, in the Farrar & Rinehart publishing house called "Little Golden America" \u200b\u200b("Little Golden America"). This name was invented by the publisher, despite the protest of the author - Evgenia Petrov and the translator of Charles Malamute. According to the publisher, such a name was to remind readers about the previous book Ilf and Petrova "Golden Challenge", previously published in the United States called "The Little Golden Calf".
"One-story America" \u200b\u200bwas successful among American readers and caused many responses in the metropolitan and provincial press.
Here is some of them:
This book should be marked as a very significant work.
Americans and America would have won a lot if they were thinking about these
observations.
Allentown Morning Call
Not many of our foreign guests were removed on such a distance
from Broadway and the central streets of Chicago; not many could tell about their
impressions with such a liveliness and humor.
New York Herald Tribune
This is one of the best books written about America foreigners.
Pleasant, but sometimes restless occupation - reoperse America again,
looking through the eyes of the authors of this book.
News Courier, North Carolina
Followers
In 1955, the Writer B. Polevoy as part of the delegation of Soviet journalists traveled a trip to the United States. Travel notes, created during this journey, formed the basis of the book "American Diaries". According to the author, the attitude to Soviet journalists in the United States has changed for the worse and, although the delegation went almost in the footsteps of Ilf and Petrov, many of the parties of American life they were deprived of the opportunity to see.
In 1969, journalists of the Pravda newspaper B. Strelnikov and I. Shatunovsky repeated the route Ilf and Petrov in order to compare how much the United States changed over the third century. The trip was the book "America on the right and left."
In the summer of 2006, Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner and TV presenter Ivan Urgant traveled a trip to the United States in the footsteps of Ilf and Petrov. In February 2008, the premiere of the film "One-story America" \u200b\u200bwas held on Russian TV, which presented the usual life of modern America. In 2011, their book "One-story America" \u200b\u200balso saw.
Bought on credit in New York "Ford", on which writers traveled all of America. Photo Ilya Ilf
On September 19, 1935, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov as correspondents of the newspaper "Pravda" went to a four-month journey through America. On the "Ford" bought in New York, the writers crossed the whole country, visited the plants of Henry Ford and the Mother of Mark Twain, in the Indian villages of Santa Fe and Taos, inspected the construction of the Hoover dam (then - Boulder Dam), and drove the Arizona Multicolored Desert We visited the construction of the bridge Golden Gate in San Francisco, held two weeks in Hollywood and through the southern states of the velno back to New York. Ilf recorded his impressions in the diary, sent daily to the wife of Mary detailed long letters, short postcards, telegrams and packs of photos. Returning to Moscow, writers published their travel notes called "One-storey Ame Rica". Perfect in English, the book was a great success in the United States, and then in other countries.
Envelope Ili Ilf from "Normandy" on the way to New York. October 4, 1935
From the family archive Ilya Ilf
The first letter of Ilya Ilf from the side of "Normandy" on the way to New York. October 4, 1935 From the family archive Ilya Ilf
The first letter of Ilya Ilf from the side of "Normandy" on the way to New York. October 4, 1935 From the family archive Ilya Ilf
In New York, writers sailed on. Ilf's letters are written on special paper with a liner logo, which in the fruitful Lii had in a special room for writing and sending letters. The movement in the cabin of the first class Ilf and Petrov described in detail in the book "One-story America".
"In general, the amenities are enormous here, if there is a spo-koino to vibration. I have a huge cabin (since we are lucky, in Paris, when we changed the chips-cards for tickets, we were given a cabin not tourist, but first class. They do it because the season has already ended that the first class does not empty absolutely) , covered with light wood, ceiling as in the subway, luxurious, there are two wide wooden beds, wardrobes, chairs, your washbasin, shower, restroom. In general, the steamer is gromen and very beautiful. But in the field of art here is clearly diligent. Modern is generally a bit nasty, but on "Normandy" it is still intensified with gold and media. "
Ilya Ilf on the deck of "Normandy". The picture made the radio constructor Alexander Shorin on the camera Ilf From the family archive Ilya Ilf "The group of our engineers with a radioconstruction center is going on" Normandy ". Everyone lay down to the bones, seemed for a minute and again hid themselves into their cabins. One I go, mad admiral, insensitive-tel to the sea disease. "
From the family archive Ilya Ilf
Postcard from New York. October 9, 1935 From the family archive Ilya Ilf
In New York Ilf and Petrov arrived on October 7, 1935 and spent there for almost a month. They have seen many people - from Ernest Hemingway before, visited Van Goghu, at one of the first pre-stations of the opera George Gershvin "Porgi and Bess", saw a boxing match in Medison-Square-Garden and dark corners of Sing Sing.
"Dear daughter Ilya Ilf appeals to his wife Mary.Yesterday sent you a letter. In the building on the back I live. Tonight I will still write. Kiss our cute sashie-ku Sasha - Alexander, daughter Ilya Ilf and Mary.,
Your ile. "
Ilya Ilf by the window of its room on the 27th floor of the Shelton Hotel in New York. Picture made Evgeny Petrov Russian State Archive of Literature and Art "In the morning, waking up on your twenty-seventh floor and looking out the window, we saw New York in the transparent morning mist."
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View from the window of the room on the 27th floor of the Shelton Hotel. Photo Ilya Ilf Russian State Archive of Literature and Art "It was what is called peaceful rustic picture. Several white cheeks risen into the sky, and the idyllic all-metal-lyric rooster was even attached to the spider of a small twenty-floor hut. The sixty-story skyscrapers, who seemed like this closest last night, were separated from us at least a tent of the red iron roofs and hundreds of high pipes and listening windows, among which the underwear hung and walked ordinary cats. "
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Solomon Abramovich Trone. Photo Ilya Ilf Russian State Archive of Literature and Art Solomon Tron (1872-1969) - an electrician engineer, often been in the Soviet Union, worked for Dneprostro, Chelyabinsk and in other places. Together with his wife Florence, the alive, energetic, curious and very sociable Solomon Trone accompanied writers on their trip in America.
Envelope from Dirborn. November 14, 1935 From the family archive Ilya Ilf
The main impressions of Ilf and Petrov on the way from New York to Golly-Wood became the plants of Henry Ford in Dirborene, Chicago and advertising, especially light.
"It was Mr. Henry Ford. He has wonderful eyes, spark-like, similar to, as can be seen, on Tolstovsky, Men's. Very motive man. He also sat down. All the time moved his feet. That rests them on the table, I laid one for the other, I put on the floor again. We spoke, what is called, "for life." A date continued for about 15 minutes or 20. Of course, such a person like Ford, no longer thinks about earnings. He said that he serves society and that life was wider than a car. In the letter, it is a pity, it is difficult to tell, my daughter. In the book "One-story America" \u200b\u200bmeeting with Henry Ford is dedicated to a separate chapter. In general, I saw a wonderful person who influenced the lives of people in a huge degree. He himself, it is necessary to think, is not very pleased with the domination of cars over a person, because he said that she wanted to make small plants where people would work and at the same time to engage in agriculture. "
Envelope from the Hotel Stevens. Chicago, November 16, 1935From the family archive Ilya Ilf
A letter from the Hotel Stevens. Chicago, November 16, 1935From the family archive Ilya Ilf
In the diary Ilya Ilf, complained that Chicago is impossible to shoot:
"15th of November
<…> Village light cars. Embankment and slums. The hotel "Stevens" has three thousand rooms. Patronage lonely ways to women, and next gerie 30 miles from Chicago, in the city of Gary, there is a large metallurgical plant U.S. Steel.. All they have clear how in the copper basin.
It would be good to remove, but the day is terrible, dark, nothing can be done, disgrace. "
From the family archive Ilya Ilf
Albuquerque greeting card. November 25, 1935From the family archive Ilya Ilf
"Dear Marusik, if Indian has an apartment on the third tier at home, then he climbs on these stairs from the roof on the roof. Dogs also walk along these stairs. Goodbye, my daughter.
Your ile.
Dogs, walking along the roofs of Indian dwellings, appeared in the "one-storey America":
"The dogs fled along their homes, not touching us, densedulously risen on the stairs and disappeared in the doorway."
From the family archive Ilya Ilf
Postcard from Navajo Bridge. November 28, 1935From the family archive Ilya Ilf
The desert made a huge impression on Ilfoy - he filmed a lot in Arizona and sent his wife a few postcards from the Grand Canyon.
"Dear Marusik, in the morning I went from Grand Kenon and drove all day along the mountain desert. So good in this colorful desert, like anywhere. Best did not see even never.
Your and Sashaenkin ile. "
Multicolored desert Arizona. Photo Ilya Ilf Russian State Archive of Literature and Art
Brand on the envelope is cut for the collection of Marks Evgeny Petrov.
From the family archive Ilya IlfFrom the family archive Ilya Ilf
Letter from San Francisco. December 5, 1935From the family archive Ilya Ilf
In front of Hollywood, writers drove into San Francisco for several days ("City of fogs, very lungs and light") - look at the construction of a Golden Gate bridge, walk around the city, go to American football and relax from the endless road.
"Cute, gentle daughter, I have already bored very much. None of you for a very long time, nor our PIGA is small Nicknamed daughter Ilfle Alexandra.. My dear children, it seems to me that I will never part with you anymore. I'm bored without you.
Hindus, the Japanese, the Dutch, anyone, and the Ti-Chi Ocean, and the whole city on falling slopes, on cliffs, and I already have too much too much, I need to look with you how our de-in Sleeps in bed. "
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San Francisco. Photo Ilya IlfRussian State Archive of Literature and Art
Descriptions of these photos got into the book "One-story America":
"It is not clear how and why we got into the" tropical himing pool ", that is, the winter pool. We stood, without removing the coat, in a huge, pretty old wooden room, where there was a heavy orange-Riine air, sticking out some bamboo rods and hung porers, loved to a young couple in bathing suits, delusito playing ping pong, And on the fat man, which floundered in a large drawer filled with water ... "