The Golden Calf - a translation in progress
Maciej Cegłowski is a man of many talents.
One project he is currently involved in is the volunteer translation of The Golden Calf, which he and his co-translator Peter V. Gadjokov describe as follows:
This is the homepage for a draft translation of Ilf and Petrov's The Golden Calf, a Soviet comic novel about con men in pursuit of an underground millionaire and his suitcase full of hard currency.
Seventy years after its publication, The Golden Calf remains a cult classic among Russian readers, but it is out of print in English translation. This will be the first time in nearly forty years that The Golden Calf will be available to English speaking readers.
They have a long way to go - they're on Chapter 7 of a total of 36 - but this is a project that's definitely worth following.