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VOINOVICH, VLADIMIR Moscow 2042: First Edition
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. Like New/Good. 1986 FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page with a $16.95 list price on front dust jacket flap. Sticker remnant on front of dust jacket, minor shelf wear, otherwise in beautiful condition. "This comic masterpiece by Russia's greatest living satirist gives us a breathatking parody of Orwell's 1984. It begins in 1982 over a few beers with a friend in the little German town of Stockdorf. Vitaly Kartsev, a Soviet writer in exile, picks up the intriguing information that a Munich travel agency can book flights gauranteed to pass though a time warp. At first he laughs the whole notion off as the product of a sozzled imagination. Yet he makes his way to Munich the very next morning, stung by a desire to see what will have become Moscow fifty years into the future. The travel agent regrets, but it cannot be done - at least not on a fifty-year flight. But to Kartsev's amazement the agent has an opening in a few weeks on a flight landing in Moscow in sixty years - that is, in 2042. Kartsev books himself a seat. What follows is a bawdy, ourageous, ingenious ocmedy as profoundly penetrating and timely as anything Orwell or Swift or Huxley ever conceived. Wielding a cast of characters that includes terrorists, sheiks, CIZ, and KGB agents, an American new correspondant, and another writer in exile - the towering, moralizing, autoritarian Sim Simyc Karnavalov - Voinvich does what no Russian writer has ever done before. He launches his adventure in the West and takes the reader into the Soviet Union with him. And the sights are as alien and bizarre to him as they are to us. In the Moscow of 2042, Marx's vision has reached absurd proportions, and communism has become a parody itself. There is a Bureau of Natural Functions, a Palace of Love, a Paplit - literature written on paper for posterity, all of it propaganda - and Paplesslit - literature typed onto type-writers with no paper in them (resolving the whole headache of censorship). Kartsev's escapades are hilarious, from encounters in Moscow's seedier quarters to confrontations with the keepers of the Kremlin to the revolution he sees unfold. Here is no mere weaving of plot and counterplot but a novel within a novel and an unprecedented merging of reality and the imagination. Moscow2042 is surely one of the most memorable works of comic literature - a dazzling display of wit and wisdom.".
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