Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author Ardis Publishers $0 (254p) ISBN 978-0-88233-559-9
Aksyonov is one of the talented generation of writers who gained notoriety in the 1960s and '70s for an experimental style of writing, bitterly criticized by the Soviet publishing establishment as ``neo-realism.'' The author's satirical, topical...
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Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author, Vassily Aksyonov, Author Vintage Books USA $7.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-394-75992-0
A Soviet emigre novelist now living in Washington, D.C., Aksyonov ( The Burn ) describes here alienation from and gradual acceptance of his adopted homeland, in what PW characterized as ``a perceptive potpourri that is mildly witty and affecting but
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Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author, Vassily Aksyonov, Author, Antonina W. Bouis, Translator Random House (NY) $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-394-54364-2
A Soviet emigre novelist now living in Washington, D.C., Aksyonov (The Burn, etc.) describes here alienation from and gradual acceptance of his adopted homeland. The self-described ""critically thinking Soviet'' tosses off a perceptive potpourri...
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Vassily Aksyonov, Author, Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author Random House (NY) $25 (592p) ISBN 978-0-394-56961-1
The exiled Russian author of The Burn and In Search of Melancholy Baby has attempted a daring coup in this huge, panoramic novel of Soviet life from 1925 to 1945: nothing less than a War and Peace for the 20th century. Aksyonov is a thoroughly self-c
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Vassily Aksyonov, Author, Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author Random House (NY) $27.5 (496p) ISBN 978-0-679-43274-6
The author of that magnificent Tolstoyan epic of 20th-century Russia, Generations of Winter, continues here the saga of the Gradov family as it endures the postwar privations, the increasingly manic suspicions of Stalin and the louche sexual...
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Vassily Aksyonov, Author, Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author Random House (NY) $29.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-679-44401-5
Alexander Korbach, the hero of acclaimed Russian migr Aksyonov's picaresque new novel, is, like his author, so disliked by the Soviet authorities that after a career as a protest singer and dramaturge for a troupe called the Buffoons, he's...
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