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<\/a><\/p>\nMARCH<\/span> 22, 2010 Open Letter editor E.J. Van Lanen will discuss the difficulties, joys, and controversies of re-translating Ilf and Petrov\u2019s The Golden Calf<\/em>, a revered Russian comedic classic, with the novel\u2019s translators, and Rush Rhees Librarians, Konstantin Gurevich and Helen Anderson<\/p>\n Teaming up with two petty criminals and a hopelessly na\u00efve driver, Ostap Bender leads his merry band of mischief makers on a raucously hilarious jaunt across the \u201cwild west\u201d of the early Soviet Union in pursuit of a secret fortune. One of the true classics of Russian literature, this new translation of Ilf and Petrov\u2019s The Golden Calf<\/em>—the first complete translation of the novel\u2014restores the absurd, manic energy of the original and reaffirms the judgment of the Soviet censors, who said: \u201cYou have a very nice hero, Ostap Bender. But really, he\u2019s just a son of a bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n (This event is hosted by Open Letter and Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Arts & Sciences. It is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And below is some more info the first new Reading the World event, coming up very soon on Monday, March 22. Click to enlarge: MARCH 22, 2010 6:00 p.m. Hawkins-Carlson Room (in Rush Rhees Library) Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ (free and open to the public) Sponsored by the Friends of the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Libraries Open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[18496,23636,28246,28256,106,27796],"class_list":["post-277216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-event","tag-golden-calf","tag-ilf","tag-petrov","tag-reading-the-world","tag-rtw"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349166,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277216\/revisions\/349166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n6:00 p.m.
\nHawkins-Carlson Room (in Rush Rhees Library)
\nÄ¢¹½´«Ã½
\n(free and open to the public)
\nSponsored by the Friends of the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Libraries<\/em><\/p>\n