Ostap Bender

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Ostap Bender

fictional character

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Ilf and Petrov
…success, and its rogue-hero—the irrepressible Ostap Bender—became overnight, and remained, one of the most popular personages in Russian fiction. Killed off at the end of The Twelve Chairs, Bender was resurrected in a sequel, Zolotoy telyonok (1931; The Little Golden Calf), an equally humorous but more serious and trenchant satire…
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…success, and its rogue-hero—the irrepressible Ostap Bender—became overnight, and remained, one of the most popular personages in Russian fiction. Killed off at the end of The Twelve Chairs, Bender was resurrected in a sequel, Zolotoy telyonok (1931; The Little Golden Calf), an equally humorous but more serious and trenchant satire…
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