The Life, the Universe, and Everything
“Still, I have no other choice but to rely on my memory.
I can easily foresee readers being mistrustful of this book and saying: This is too much already, he made it up, it couldn’t have happened. I’m not going to argue with whether is could have, but I will be most definite in saying that [...]
Quoting Vladimir Voinovich. From “Moscow 2042”.
“Of course,” he said with a sad nod, as if admitting something that was supposed to have remained a secret. “Did you really figure that out all by yourself?”
“I didn’t have to figure anything out,” I said. “The truth was right there in front of me. But I didn’t have [...]
It is one of my favourite books written by Vladimir Voinovich and this is just the description or synopsis of what it is all about. It was my intention to quote the book occasionally, so I was hoping that some people might enjoy the quotes and possibly even would want to read the book itself.
Moscow [...]
About “Monumental Propaganda” (from the cover of the book)
“A cutting comic romp … a tale of naïve, willful delusion on a collision course with bureaucratic group-think: mindless belief on a collision course with unthinking pragmatism.” Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Vladimir Voinovich, author of the classic “The life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin”, [...]
This quote is from the book “Monumental Propaganda” by Vladimir Voinovich.
“Alexei Mikhailovich Makarov, also known as Admiral, used to say that if it was up to him to decide what monument to erect to our Soviet era, he would not have commemorated Stalin or Lenin or ayone else, but the Unknown Soviet Man squatting like [...]
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