Author: Vladimir Voĭnovich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Translation of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Part I, by Vladimir Voinovich
Author: Vladimir Voĭnovich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Author: Vladimir Voĭnovich
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810112438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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 peacefully 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. Vladimir Voinovich's hilarious satire ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union, from agricultural reform to the Red Army to Stalin, in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810112438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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 peacefully 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. Vladimir Voinovich's hilarious satire ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union, from agricultural reform to the Red Army to Stalin, in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Author: Vladimir Voĭnovich
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
**** Reprint of the Farrar, Strauss and Giroux translation of 1977. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
**** Reprint of the Farrar, Strauss and Giroux translation of 1977. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Author: Vladimir Voinovich
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374517526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
**** Reprint of the Farrar, Strauss and Giroux translation of 1977. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374517526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
**** Reprint of the Farrar, Strauss and Giroux translation of 1977. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich
Author: Sandra Mary Thomson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
A Displaced Person
Author: Vladimir Voinovich
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A Displaced Person follows a series of random events that brings Chonkin to the United States, where he becomes a farmer and, eventually, a member of a congressional delegation sent to the Soviet Union in 1989, during perestroika, to discuss agriculture with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A Displaced Person follows a series of random events that brings Chonkin to the United States, where he becomes a farmer and, eventually, a member of a congressional delegation sent to the Soviet Union in 1989, during perestroika, to discuss agriculture with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Serbian Dreambook
Author: Marko Živković
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253223067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The central role that the regime of Slobodan Milošević played in the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia is well known, but Marko Živković explores another side of this time period: the stories people in Serbia were telling themselves (and others) about themselves. Živković traces the recurring themes, scripts, and narratives that permeated public discourse in Milošević's Serbia, as Serbs described themselves as Gypsies or Jews, violent highlanders or peaceful lowlanders, and invoked their own mythologized defeat at the Battle of Kosovo. The author investigates national narratives, the use of tradition for political purposes, and local idioms, paying special attention to the often bizarre and outlandish tropes people employed to make sense of their social reality. He suggests that the enchantments of political life under Milošević may be fruitfully seen as a dreambook of Serbian national imaginary.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253223067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The central role that the regime of Slobodan Milošević played in the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia is well known, but Marko Živković explores another side of this time period: the stories people in Serbia were telling themselves (and others) about themselves. Živković traces the recurring themes, scripts, and narratives that permeated public discourse in Milošević's Serbia, as Serbs described themselves as Gypsies or Jews, violent highlanders or peaceful lowlanders, and invoked their own mythologized defeat at the Battle of Kosovo. The author investigates national narratives, the use of tradition for political purposes, and local idioms, paying special attention to the often bizarre and outlandish tropes people employed to make sense of their social reality. He suggests that the enchantments of political life under Milošević may be fruitfully seen as a dreambook of Serbian national imaginary.
Collectors and Collections of Slavica at Stanford University
Author: Wojciech Zalewski
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Firebird and the Fox
Author: Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
English Translations of Korczak’s Children’s Fiction
Author: Michał Borodo
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303038117X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This book investigates major linguistic transformations in the translation of children’s literature, focusing on the English-language translations of Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish children’s writer known for his innovative pedagogical methods as the head of a Warsaw orphanage for Jewish children in pre-war Poland. The author outlines fourteen tendencies in translated children’s literature, including mitigation, simplification, stylization, hyperbolization, cultural assimilation and fairytalization, in order to analyse various translations of King Matt the First, Big Business Billy and Kaytek the Wizard. The author then addresses the translators’ treatment of racial issues based on the socio-cultural context. The book will be of use to students and researchers in the field of translation studies, and researchers interested in children’s literature or Janusz Korczak.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303038117X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This book investigates major linguistic transformations in the translation of children’s literature, focusing on the English-language translations of Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish children’s writer known for his innovative pedagogical methods as the head of a Warsaw orphanage for Jewish children in pre-war Poland. The author outlines fourteen tendencies in translated children’s literature, including mitigation, simplification, stylization, hyperbolization, cultural assimilation and fairytalization, in order to analyse various translations of King Matt the First, Big Business Billy and Kaytek the Wizard. The author then addresses the translators’ treatment of racial issues based on the socio-cultural context. The book will be of use to students and researchers in the field of translation studies, and researchers interested in children’s literature or Janusz Korczak.