The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
2 hrs. 44 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Emil Braginsky
Author
Eldar Ryazanov
Narrator
Yury Vasilyev
Narrator
Alena Yakovleva
Narrator
Olga Aroseva
Description
An audiobook by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath.” The idea for this work came to Emil Braginsky and Eldar Ryazanov after they were told the story of a man who, after a bathhouse, went to visit friends—where he celebrated enthusiastically and actively—then fell asleep clean and satisfied. Among the not exactly sober friends, there arose a “brilliant” idea to put their unfortunate buddy on a train heading to Leningrad. As a result, when the friend who understood nothing woke up in the common carriage of the train that had arrived in the city on the Neva, he discovered that besides a broom, a briefcase, and fifteen kopecks in his pocket, he had nothing. Braginsky and Ryazanov started imagining how the events of this almost detective story might unfold further. In the end, it became a cheerful lyrical play about Zhenya Lukashin, Nadezhda Sheveleva, and Hippolytus. To give the whole story the feel of a fairy tale, the authors immersed it in the atmosphere of New Year’s night…
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