Monumental Propaganda - Hardcover

Voinovich, Vladimir

 
9780375412356: Monumental Propaganda
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375412352 ISBN 13: 9780375412356
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

A first novel in twelve years by the satirical author of The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin finds Aglaya, a believer in Stalinism, centering her life on the dictator's methods in spite of her provincial community's political ideologies. 12,500 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Vladimir Voinovich is also the author of Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, The Fur Hat, Moscow 2042, The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union, The Ivankiad, and In Plain Russian: Stories. He lives in Munich.

Aus dem Klappentext

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 novel in twelve years, centers on Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina, a true believer in Stalin, who finds herself bewildered and beleaguered in the relative openness of the Khrushchev era. She believes her greatest achievement was to have browbeaten her community into building an iron statue of the supreme leader, which she moves into her apartment after his death. And despite the ebb and flow of political ideology in her provincial town, she stubbornly, and at all costs, centers her life on her private icon.

Voinovich s humanely comic vision has never been sharper than it is in this hilarious but deeply moving tale equally all-seeing about Stalinism, the era of Khrushchev, and glasnost in the final years of Soviet rule. The New York Times Book Review called his classic work, The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, a masterpiece of a new form socialist surrealism . . . the Soviet Catch-22 written by a latter-day Gogol." In Monumental Propaganda we have the welcome return of a truly singular voice in world literature.

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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375412352
ISBN 13 
9780375412356
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
384
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