Voinovich, Vladimir.

In Plain Russian. Stories. Translated by Richard Lourie.

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Octavo. XV, 299 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. A collection of short stories by the author of “the Soviet Catch 22” The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin. Near fine in dust jacket with mild crease to rear panel, small bump to head of spine. Inscribed / signed by Voinovich to Art Editor Jeff Schaire in 1981.

[Cornwell 880]

Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich, also spelled Voynovich (born 26 September 1932, Stalinabad) is a Russian writer, poet, playwright and journalist, a former Soviet dissident. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Language and Literature. Voinovich is famous for his satirical fiction, but also for writing some poetry. While working for Moscow radio in the early 1960s, he produced the lyrics for the cosmonauts’ anthem, Fourteen Minutes To Lift-off.
At the outset of the Brezhnev stagnation period, Voinovich’s writings stopped being published in the USSR, but became very popular in samizdat and in the West. In 1974, because of his writing and his participation in the human rights movement, Voinovich was excluded from the Soviet Writers’ Union. His telephone line was cut off in 1976 and he and his family were forced to emigrate in 1980. He settled in Munich, West Germany and worked for Radio Liberty. Voinovich helped publish Vasily Grossman’s famous novel Life and Fate by smuggling photo films secretly taken by Andrei Sakharov. Mikhail Gorbachev restored his Soviet citizenship in 1990 and since then the writer spends most of his time in Russia. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Inscribed · Literature · Russian Literature – Rare · Signed · Widmungsexemplar · World Literature
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 60110AB

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