- Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Ficiton, Description and travel
"Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities.
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Comic, cool, classical in form and warm.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 395
- Publisher
- Radiansḱii̐ Pisḿennik, Bibliotech Press, Olimp
- Editions
- 57
- Language
- German, French, slo, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781537454412
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