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  • 18 - Can You Kid a Kidder?

  • from Part III - To the Pacific Ocean
  • 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 183-192

  • Summary

    Chapter 18 analyzes Ilf and Petrov’s encounter with the Agapito Pino in the pueblo of San Ildefonso. It compares the accounts of the meeting in Ilf’s notebook, the pair’s photo essay, and the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika, as well as contemporary work by American anthropologists to consider whether the Soviet funnymen understood that the Pueblo clown Pino was having a little fun with them when he claimed to know nothing of life beyond the reservation. The question of whether Ilf and Petrov got the joke goes to the core of their efforts to understand America. Were they able to recognize and laugh at their own desire to find unspoiled American Indians, who had only the vaguest notion of the existence of jazz, moving pictures, and a place called New York City?