The book is the fascinating guidebook to novels which are favourite by almost each Russian reader. It is addressed both for experts, and for everybody who is ready to peer together with the author into the text and implied senses of "Twelve chairs» and «the Gold calf», in I.Ilf and E.Petrov's creative laboratory.
The status of loans and citations in two books of co-authors is absolutely special: they stitch all narrative fabric; it is specially applied reception. Both novels were created when products-predecessors were on hearing, "appeared through" the text of Ilf and Petrov. For the today's reader these novels have turned to crossword puzzles. J. K. Shcheglov solves them excellent and fascinatingly, returning reader's success to the books.
This is the third, considerably expanded edition of known work of one of the largest Russian philologists of our time.