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  • 11 - Squaring the Circle

  • from Part II - New York and the Eastern States
  • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
    Published online:
    18 January 2024
    Print publication:
    22 February 2024, pp 109-120

  • Summary

    Chapter 11 documents Ilf and Petrov’s family ties to America. The pair visited Ilf’s uncles in Hartford, Connecticut, and saw Petrov’s brother’s play, Squaring the Circle, on Broadway. They detailed neither of these adventures in the published travelogue. But again, as with the complex hybrids, the contacts shed light on the process of cultural exchange. Seeing Ilf’s Jewish Russian American relatives in Hartford and an American production of Valentin Kataev’s popular Soviet farce on Broadway allowed Ilf and Petrov to reflect on the possibility of bridging divides and to grapple with the most difficult kind of cultural understanding: getting one another’s jokes.