Talk:The Little Golden Calf

Correcting
Russian text of the novel showes a scene where Bender decides to donate the money to Ministry of Finance (Остап взял химический карандаш и, возбужденно махнув им в воздухе, написал: ЦЕННАЯ Народному комиссару финансов. Москва.

Ostap took an indelible pencil and excitely waving it in the air, wrote: VALUABLE To People's commissar of finance. Moscow)

However, for a long time the article in Wikipedia pointed out that the money was danated to orphanage. It is possible that this inconsistency comes out from not correct English translation

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.64.125.61 (talk) 12:29, 28 February 2007 (UTC).

Why was "Ministry of Finance" changed back to the ridiculous "orphanage"? I have already cited the source! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.245.80.44 (talk) 14:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Pilite, Shura
The actual phrase in the book is: "Пилите, пилите!", without "Shura". I just re-read it, and that's how it appears. You can also see it in http://www.lib.ru/ILFPETROV/telenok.txt#24 DR31 (talk) 16:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The actual spoken catch phrase is with Shura. The phrase no longe belongs to the author. It is folklore now, man. mikka (t) 22:56, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Why "little" golden calf? "Telenok" means "calf", end of story; "little" is an unnecessary intensifier and redundant in this case. The situation would have been different if the authors had used "telenochek". Any objections before I delete "little"?--Redisca 19:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * In English, the book is called "The Little Golden Calf", so yes, objections. DR31 (talk)

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 * You can use first edition pages] from the "30 days" magazine, that I updoaded some days ago in Russian article ru:Золотой телёнок. It's also fair use, but it's created in 1931 and illustrator (K. Rokotov) is died in 1959, so it's older than any other cover. -- Lord Akryl (talk) 17:08, 30 July 2012 (UTC).

"little"
why add "little" to calf? are there any big calves? the russian translation is literally and in any other meaning — the golden calf, no 'little'

please REMOVE 'LITTLE' FROM THE TITLE! it's The Golden Calf, not The Little Golden Calf!!! —Topk (talk) 15:46, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

My 1932 English translation uses the "Little", it was probably added so that English readers would not mistake it for a religious text. This Wikipedia page is in English and "Little Golden Calf" is the form most English readers have encountered the novel. Saxophobia (talk) 10:35, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The Golden Calf has redirected to golden calf since September 2004. – wbm1058 (talk) 01:02, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

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