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 |
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
Title | The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Voĭnovich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1979 |
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Life of Ivan Chonkin
Title | Life of Ivan Chonkin PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Voinovich |
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Pages | |
Release | 1982-11-01 |
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ISBN | 9780374517250 |
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Title | The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Voinovich |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1982-11-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780374517526 |
**** Reprint of the Farrar, Strauss and Giroux translation of 1977. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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 |
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.
A Translation of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Part I, by Vladimir Voinovich
Title | A Translation of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Part I, by Vladimir Voinovich PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Voĭnovich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1976 |
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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich
Title | The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Mary Thomson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 892 |
Release | 1981 |
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