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 forg...
Voinovich, Vladimir. The Ivankiad. Or the Tale of the Writer Voinovich's Installation in his new apartment. Translated by David Lapeza. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977. Octavo. 131 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective...
When Chonkin is mistaken for Prince Golitsyn, Hitler, Himmler, Stalin, and Beria try to have him captured, each side needing him for their political machinations, but Chonkin, the wise fool, eludes them in this burlesque of institutionalized fear and...
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? Ho...
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? Ho...
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 n...
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Title: A Displaced Person
Author: Voinovich, Vladimir/ Bromfield, Andrew (TRN)
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2012/10/31
Number of Pages: 238
Binding Type: PAPERBACK