Item Summary

"This brilliant parody of the Marxist dialectic serves not only as a delightful children's book but also as a shrewd political tract. The two little boys banter back and forth between the ideal and the real much as Communist Party members did in the early days of the Soviet State. The bright wrappers alone showing parrots on the front and monkeys on the back were enough to offend Russian bureaucrats. The subversive message was perhaps more obvious than Kharms intended, for it was for books like this that he was arrested for sedition in 1930 and his work banned.".

Descriptive Information

Title
O tom, kak Kolʹka Pankin letal v Brazilii︠u︡, a Petʹka Ershov nichemu ne veril / Kharms ; risunki E. Ėvenbakh.
Call Number
Pams / NR 20 / Cyrillic / Box 30A 46140
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9z9038648
Publisher
Moskva ; Leningrad : GIZ, 1928.
Language
Russian
Date Created
1928
Extent
29, [3] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
"E. K. Evenmbakh was an importiant Soviet children's book artist who originally worked in the Constructivist style of her mentor V. V. Lebedev. This is one of her first and finest books.".
Binding Note
Pub. white color-printed pictorial wrappers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Children's literature—Soviet Union
Play—Juvenile fiction
Imagination—Juvenile fiction
Brazil—Juvenile fiction
Reality—Juvenile fiction
Fiction

Physical Characteristics

File Count
36

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a51c2909-3ba6-4b98-92e2-2a77eabfc367/manifest