Ivan Chonkin [Voinovich] YMCA Press 1975

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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin. (Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина (Роман Анекдот в Пяти Частях). Vladimir Voinovich [Владимир Войнович]. Paris: YMCA-Press, 1975. First edition. 357 pages, portrait frontis of author. Text in Russian. 287 pages, publisher's illustrated covers. Light stain on back cover, some smaller ones front cover, edges yellowed. Binding and text sound, no writing or names.

Vladimir Nikolaevich Voynovich (1932-2018) wrote prose, poetry and plays. In 1980 he was forced to emigrate from the USSR and was deprived of Soviet citizenship; until the mid-2000s he lived in Germany. The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin was developed by Voinovich starting in 1963, and circulated in samizdat. The first part was published (without the author's permission) in 1969 in Frankfurt am Main, and the entire book in 1975 in Paris.