Lecture by philologist Leonid Klyan: "Ostap Bender: A Hundred Years Later"
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Philologist Leonid Klein will deliver a lecture on the perception of the novels "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Little Golden Calf" one hundred years after their writing. The speaker will discuss the relevance of Ostap Bender's jokes today and whether the character has lost his charm. The event is suitable for everyone familiar with classic literature, especially for an audience aged 40+.
Philologist Leonid Klein will deliver a lecture on the perception of the novels "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Little Golden Calf" one hundred years after their writing. The speaker will discuss the relevance of Ostap Bender's jokes today and whether the character has lost his charm. The event is suitable for everyone familiar with classic literature, especially for an audience aged 40+.
Ostap Bender: A Modern Look at Classic Satire
Everyone seems to know Ostap Bender. If you are over 40, you are likely filled with quotes from two famous novels. You have also watched and re-watched the films starring Mironov and Yursky... In short, we are all so "loaded into the matrix" of The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf that it is hard for us to look at these two texts from the outside.
Yet there is much to discuss. For example, the history of readers' perception of the novels. Or how funny, relevant, and appropriate the main character's jokes are today. Has Ostap Bender lost his charm after nearly a century? Come. I promise it won't be boring, because "waves of speech will roll over the anvil and fall down like a rapid jack."
Leonid Klein is one of the brightest popularizers of literature, able to view classic texts through the prism of modern experience. By training a philologist, radio host, teacher, and author of the book Useless Classics, he turns reading books into a practical tool for understanding psychology, business, and the spirit of the times. Klein has long worked at the intersection of humanities culture and business education, showing that literary characters are not museum exhibits, but precise social models that help make sense of what is happening around us.
