A comic novel about a simple Red Army soldier left to guard a downed plane in a remote village and then forgotten as the war begins. The first book of the Chonkin trilogy, often set beside the tale of the Good Soldier Svejk.
A documentary satire in which the author recounts his fight with a party official over a Moscow apartment. A wry look at Soviet bureaucracy and the writers' union from the inside.
The second book of the Chonkin trilogy: after the soldier's arrest, the case around him swells into an absurd affair of state. Voinovich turns the army, the courts and the press into targets of satire.
A dystopian satire in which an exiled writer travels sixty years ahead and finds Moscow turned into a closed communist state built on slogans. A book later noted for how much it seemed to foresee.
A short satirical tale of a mediocre writer who learns the union hands out fur hats by rank, and whose wounded pride slowly turns to revolt. A sly reworking of Gogol's Overcoat among Soviet literati.
A satirical novel about a devoted Stalinist who, after the leader falls from official favour, moves his iron statue into her own flat and keeps her faith through the decades that follow.
The final book of the Chonkin trilogy, carrying the soldier's story across later decades and beyond the Soviet Union. Voinovich closes the saga he began nearly forty years earlier.
A late satirical novel, cast as a feverish dream, in which an ageing writer reckons with the moods and myths of present-day Russia. One of Voinovich's final books.