A Displaced Person

A Displaced Person
Title A Displaced Person PDF eBook
Author Vladimir Voinovich
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Pages 249
Release 2012-10-31
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0810126621

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A Displaced Person follows a series of random events that brings Chonkin to the United States, where he becomes a farmer and, eventually, a member of a congressional delegation sent to the Soviet Union in 1989, during perestroika, to discuss agriculture with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Title The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin PDF eBook
Author Vladimir Voĭnovich
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Pages 328
Release 1995
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780810112438

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Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a peasant and passes the war peacefully tending the village postmistress's garden. Just after the German invasion, the secret police discover this mysterious soldier lurking behind the front line. Their pursuit of Chonkin and his determined resistance lead to wild skirmishes and slapstick encounters. Vladimir Voinovich's hilarious satire ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union, from agricultural reform to the Red Army to Stalin, in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Title The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin PDF eBook
Author Vladimir Voĭnovich
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1979
Genre
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The Fur Hat

The Fur Hat
Title The Fur Hat PDF eBook
Author Vladimir Voinovich
Publisher HarperVia
Pages 0
Release 1991
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780156340304

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In this satire of Soviet life, novelist Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers' Union is goiving out fur hats to its members according to their importance.

Monumental Propaganda

Monumental Propaganda
Title Monumental Propaganda PDF eBook
Author Vladimir Voinovich
Publisher Knopf
Pages 382
Release 2007-12-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307426939

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From Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great satirists of contemporary Russian literature, comes a new comic novel about the absurdity of politics and the place of the individual in the sweep of human events. Monumental Propaganda, Voinovich’s first novel in twelve years, centers on Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina, a true believer in Stalin, who finds herself bewildered and beleaguered in the relative openness of the Khrushchev era. She believes her greatest achievement was to have browbeaten her community into building an iron statue of the supreme leader, which she moves into her apartment after his death. And despite the ebb and flow of political ideology in her provincial town, she stubbornly, and at all costs, centers her life on her private icon. Voinovich’s humanely comic vision has never been sharper than it is in this hilarious but deeply moving tale–equally all-seeing about Stalinism, the era of Khrushchev, and glasnost in the final years of Soviet rule. The New York Times Book Review called his classic work, The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, “a masterpiece of a new form–socialist surrealism . . . the Soviet Catch-22 written by a latter-day Gogol." In Monumental Propaganda we have the welcome return of a truly singular voice in world literature.

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Title The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin PDF eBook
Author Vladimir Vojnovič
Publisher
Pages 268
Release 1978
Genre
ISBN

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Moscow 2042

Moscow 2042
Title Moscow 2042 PDF eBook
Author Владимир Войнович
Publisher HarperVia
Pages 448
Release 1990
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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The year is 1982, just two years before that made famous by Orwell. An exiled Soviet writer discovers that a German travel agency is booking flights through a time warp to a variety of tempting sites and dates in the future. Moscow? The year 2042? How can he resist? Afterword by the Author. Translated by Richard Lourie.