Пикаро в советском контексте: (модификация плутовского романа в дилогии И. Ильфа и E. Петрова)

Abstract

The essay deals with the genre peculiarity of the famous dilogy of the Russian satirists Ilya IVf and Evgenij Petrov (*The Twelve Chairs” and "The Golden Cali”). Various critics found in these novels elements of such genres and genre modifications as criminal biography, novel of adventures, Bildungsroman, novel-pamphlet and so on. A number of typical structural devices frequently used by the novelists, the original and complicated character of their charismatic protagonist Ostap Bender, such the quality of the both books as their consistent historicism, a very important role of irony and parody in the inner world of the literary works under investigation etc. allow to relate the dilogy of II'f and Petrov to the tradition of European picaresque novel.