Vladimir Voinovich

Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Войнович, scientific transliteration Vladimir Nikolaevich Vojnovič; born September 26, 1932 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR ) is a Russian writer and is considered one of the greatest satirists of our time.

Life

Voinovich was among other things, as a shepherd, carpenter, aircraft mechanics and railway workers and as a radio producer, before he published his first works in 1956. These initially were still supporting the state praises of the "heroes " of real socialism.

However, in the years 1963 to 1970 he wrote the picaresque novel, the memorable adventure of soldiers Ivan Tschonkin, a satirical settlement with the political system of the Soviet Union. With the dumb title hero ( Ivan Tschonkin, pretender to the throne ) was in yet another novel, the main character, Voinovich created a figure who - like Jaroslav Hašek's Soldier Schweik - the conditions under the dictatorship of Stalin by ad absurdum, that he had himself conditions strictly submits and followed all instructions without protest.

The first Tschonkin novel Voinovich made ​​known in the West. Its publication and the support that was made by the author of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union, led to Voinovich in 1974 expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union and was expatriated in 1981. The writer had left his homeland in 1980 and now lives in Munich.

After the reunification in Russia in 1990 he was officially rehabilitated and won several awards, most recently the Russian State Prize for the novel Aglaya Rewkinas last love. Today, Vladimir Voinovich lives temporarily again in Moscow. His works have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Works

(Selection)

  • The memorable adventure of soldiers Ivan Tschonkin
  • Ivan Tschonkin, pretender to the throne
  • In good Russian or the may be I would have
  • Penpals
  • Two friends
  • You are on the right path, comrades
  • Aglaya Rewkinas last love
  • Incident at the Metropol. My amazing KGB file
  • Continent III
  • Moscow 2042
  • The cap
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