Background
Voinovich, Vladimir Nikolayevich was born on September 26, 1932 in Dushanbe, Tadzhikistan, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Nikolay Pavlovich and Rosa (Goikhman) Voinovich.
( Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been...)
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 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.
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( Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been...)
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 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.
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( This hilarious novel following the continuing adventure...)
This hilarious novel following the continuing adventures of Ivan Chonkin, a simple peasant who has been arrested as a traitor after spending World War II happily tending a garden. In this sequel to The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Vladimir Voinovich ridicules everything sacred to the Soviet Union--the army, the justice system, the press, and Stalin himself--in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.
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( In this satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-pub...)
In this satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-published novelist, Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers' Union is giving fur hats to its members based on their importance, and that he rates only fluffy tomcat. Translated by Susan Brownsberger.
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(Vladimir Voinovich, author of the classic The Life and Ex...)
Vladimir Voinovich, author of the classic The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, has long been acclaimed as perhaps the greatest living satirist of Russian literature. In Monumental Propaganda, he again launches a fearless and hilarious assault on the hypocrisies and corruptions of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.
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V svoem novom romane Vladimir Voinovich vozvraschaet chitatelia v odno ikh pamiatnykh `chonkinskikh` mest - raitsentr Dolgov, gde i razvorachivaetsia deistvie s pervykh poslevoennykh let do nashikh dnei. V tsentre sobytii - monument Stalina i obozhatel'nitsa vozhdia Aglaia Revkina: `V Boga nebesnogo ne verila, ee zemnym bogom byl Stalin`. Vmeste s geroinei my perezhivaem sobytiia, svideteliami kotorykh bylo starshee pokolenie chitatelei. Knigu otlichaet napriazhennyi siuzhet i prisuschii avtoru ironicheskii vzgliad na nashu nedavniuiu istoriiu. ..
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author playwright and film script-writer
Voinovich, Vladimir Nikolayevich was born on September 26, 1932 in Dushanbe, Tadzhikistan, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Nikolay Pavlovich and Rosa (Goikhman) Voinovich.
Student, Pedagogical Institute, Moscow, 1959. Doctorate (honorary), Nottingham University, England, 2001. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Middlebery College, 2001.
First published in the early 1960s. Became famous for his satirical books published abroad: Zhizn’ i Neobyknovennye Prikliuchenia Soldata Ivana Chonkina (Paris: YMCA Press, 1976), Ivan’kiada(USA: Ardis, 1976), Putem Vzaimnoi Perepiski (YMCA, 1978), and Pretendent Na Preslol (YMCA). Emigrated in 1980.
( In this satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-pub...)
(V svoem novom romane Vladimir Voinovich vozvraschaet chit...)
(Vladimir Voinovich, author of the classic The Life and Ex...)
( This hilarious novel following the continuing adventure...)
( Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been...)
( Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been...)
("Originally published in Russian as Peremeshchennoe Litso...)
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Author: The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, 1977, Ivankiad, 1977, Pretender to the Throne, 1981, Moscow-2042, 1987, The Fur Hat, 1989, Monumental Propaganda, 2004.
Served with Soviet Air Force, 1951-1955. Member Serbian Academy of Sciences Arts., Bavarian Academy Fine Arts, Mark Twain Society (honorary).
Married Valentina Voinovich. Children: Marina, Pavel. Married Irina Braude, 1970.
1 child, Olga.