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	Booknotes Transcript
		AKSYONOV: Well, I graduated from a medical institute and I worked as a doctor for four years, and then I wrote a novel, my very first novel, and all of a sudden it was published in an extremely popular magazine with subscriptions of 3-1/2 million and that was a smashing success absolutely.
		AKSYONOV: Oh no, no. I published it and smuggled it with the help of friends, foreign friends in the United States to France, and finally it was published first in Russian, in the United States, and then translated.
		AKSYONOV: Well, actually I like this country, and it seems to be that the United States is certainly the model for the future of humankind maybe.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1443 (5686 words)

	TRAPDOORS TO HONOR - New York Times
		Aksyonov, perhaps the most gifted member of the post-Stalinist generation of Soviet writers, was rarely published in his native land during the repressive period between the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and his enforced emigration in 1980.
		Aksyonov's fault that his stylistic gifts - a mixture of perfectly pitched dialogue, rapidly shifting tenses, multilayered metaphor, classical allusion and sheer verbal inventiveness - pose a herculean task for a translator, one to which the translators of this collection, Joel Wilkinson and Slava Yastremski, simply aren't equal.
		Aksyonov suggests three possible endings to the story - a straightforward arrest, an arrest in which the hero is comforted by the love and loyalty of his friends, and a miraculous escape facilitated by a storm that blows the ship off course into the Aegean Sea.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E7DB1F38F93BA15757C0A963948260 (695 words)

	Prof. Aksyonov S.I. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Sergei Aksyonov is a Head of Exobiology Laboratory of Biophysical Department of Biological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
		Aksyonov revised previous estimations of water state in biological systems which were made by different physical methods, and obtained a new correct estimation.
		Aksyonov S.I. et al, NMR spin-echo study of the effect of hydration on the mobility and conformation of linear polyethylene- imine.
	www.biophys.msu.ru /personal/aksyonov (902 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES - New York Times
		Aksyonov, who came to this country in 1980, is the son of Eugenia Ginzburg, whose books, ''Journey Into the Whirlwind'' and ''Within the Whirlwind,'' are classics of gulag literature.
		Aksyonov has called its ''soul period.'' He has described his book - which is not easily described in a few words - as dealing with five intellectuals, linked by their experiences of official repression.
		Aksyonov concedes on page 526, toward the end of a 60-page coda, that his reader is likely to be exhausted by the effort to keep track of characters, times and places.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5D61139F930A25752C1A962948260 (645 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Out of the Drawer & Into the West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		...Aksyonov was one of the chief beneficiaries of this momentary thaw, during which poets, musicians, and story-writers were accorded the kind of national idolatry reserved for rock stars in the West, and it seemed as if it would soon be possible to say anything...
		...Aksyonov's is a literature of reaction and complaint, and as such may be welcome to Westerners who mourn the passing of a "protest" movement...
		...Aksyonov informs his readers that although they might suppose (to judge by our own literary Croesuses) that a best-selling Moscow novelist makes buckets of money, in fact he himself was often obliged to take on translation work and children's books in order to support his family...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V80I1P38-1.htm (6708 words)

	Winter's End - Cynthia Grenier
		Vassily Aksyonov's wonderfully engrossing novel The Winter's Hero is a welcome change of pace from most current American fiction, seemingly lost in cris de coeur, navel gazing, and Prozac gobbling.
		Aksyonov, long considered one of the best novelists of his generation writing in Russian, has had a personal life and literary career reflecting much of the course of Soviet history, and he has deftly woven his knowledge into this novel.
		Aksyonov in a graceful few pages of introduction brushes in the essential plot and character elements of the earlier novel.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1997/june/Sa16029.htm (204 words)

	The Indian Express: Columnists - Shashi Tharoor
		Aksyonov’s principal protagonist is Sasha Korbach, a dissident Russian theatre impresario, director and actor, the leading spirit of a counter-cultural Moscow troupe called the Buffoons, who emigrates in 1982 to the United States.
		That affair, with Stanley’s older daughter, the beautiful and wanton (and married) Nora Mansour, is a maddeningly elusive relationship, punctuated by inexplicably long absences, mutual infidelities and absurd misunderstandings, all made a mockery of by the too-pat resolution.
		Aksyonov is a prodigiously inventive writer, with a vivid and fertile imagination and a lust for the lives of his characters.
	www.expressindia.com /columnists/shas/20000305.html (787 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		...Aksyonov too may well find a place on it one day, becoming almost as popular an author among Ameri- can readers as he was in his native Russia...
		...Aksyonov views himself as a constructive critic of American culture, and we should be grateful to him for that...
		...Aksyonov's article begins with the author's astonishment, after attending an Amherst theater conference, at turning on the television set in his hotel room only to find no mention made on the evening news of an event which had included such luminaries as Derek Walcott and Arthur Miller...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V80I5P4-1.htm (10875 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Soviet 'traitor' wins Russian Booker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		And Aksyonov said he still claimed the title of dissident despite the fall of communism in Russia.
		Aksyonov burst onto the literary scene in 1960 when he published his first novel, Colleagues, at the age of 28.
		Aksyonov was stripped of his Soviet citizenship for a decade and his books - which now top the bestseller lists in Moscow - were not formally approved for publication there until the late 1980s as Soviet power crumbled.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/CDFB5DCF-5311-4E84-8C09-322E6D6C9744.htm (593 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - News - Limonov Claims Victory Against the FSB
		Limonov and Aksyonov, who appeared downcast when the hearing started, began to relax and smile as Matrosov droned on, announcing the dismissal of charges that they had plotted to overthrow the government, created illegal armed formations and planned terrorist acts.
		Limonov and Aksyonov were accused of masterminding a plan to carry out an armed invasion of northern Kazakhstan, which is populated mostly by ethnic Russians.
		The court said that investigators failed to prove Limonov and Aksyonov had put together the plan, and their witnesses could not confirm that the two men had publicly called for the overthrow of the government.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=9898 (1276 words)

	My View From Las Vegas :: Russian Writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Strictly speaking, Vassily Aksyonov was not entirely shocked to receive this year's Open Russia Booker Prize, as his was the most famous name on the shortlist.
		Fame came to Aksyonov amid the cultural thaw of the early 1960s with his publication of two romantic novellas, "Oranges From Morocco" (Apelsiny iz Morokko) and "Surplussed Barrelware" (Zatovarennaya Bochkotara), in the liberal literary magazine Yunost.
		Unwilling to play by the authorities' rules, he told a Voice of America radio interviewer that he was being forced into exile and, meanwhile, contributed a piece to Metropol, the uncensored samizdat almanac that brought together the cream of his generation's literary elite.
	michaelpwhelan.blog.com /83372 (1321 words)

	Amazon.fr : The New Sweet Style: A Novel : Livres en anglais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Vassily Aksyonov (Generations of Winter) is clearly a man of vast ambitions: his writing has an invigorating wildness, veering off into the stratosphere at regular intervals.
		Aksyonov was forced to leave Russia in the '80s because his work was considered too controversial for publication.
		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 pressured by the KGB to leave the Soviet Union.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679444017 (613 words)

	Amazon.com: Generations of Winter (Vintage International): Books: Vassily Aksyonov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Aksyonov's characters are occasionally wooden or stereotypical, but he paints on a broad canvas, and his sweep is impressive; even readers unschooled in the events he depicts will finish this book with a sober understanding that "all of modern Russian history looks like a series of breakers-waves of retribition." Recommended for most collections.
		Aksyonov offers a ray of sunshine in the end, but for the most part this is a bleak novel, befitting the era, and the impact Stalinism had on Russian society.
		Aksyonov, for some reason, felt that readers needed to see how "others" and by "others" I mean the family dog, a squirrel, a tree, all have thoughts about the family and what is going on in Russia at that time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679761829?v=glance (3719 words)

	Vasily Aksyonov, Василий Аксенов (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Aksyonov's style in writing was praised as a novel and off-beat phenomenon in literature.
		The book dealt with Stalin's repressions, and the sheer fact that the young writer dared to approach this tabooed subject was enough to provoke repressions of the Soviet regime against the author himself, forcing his expatriation.
		In the ten years that followed, Aksyonov came to be broadly regarded as a true living classic of contemporary literature, exploring paths of the genre and language never trodden before.
	www.penrussia.org /a-m/va_aks.htm (247 words)

	Aksyonov Receives Russia's Top Literary Prize - The Mason Gazette - George Mason University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Earlier this month, in a lavish ceremony at Moscow's Golden Ring Hotel, Vassily Aksyonov, Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature and Writing, received the Open Russia Booker Prize, which is awarded for the best Russian novel of the year.
		He made his Soviet literary debut in 1960 and was considered one of the most popular Soviet writers of prose in the 1960s and 1970s.
		Aksyonov settled in the Washington, D.C., area, where he taught at Johns Hopkins University and Goucher University before joining Mason as a Robinson Professor.
	gazette.gmu.edu /articles/6298/print (337 words)

	" The Chief Designer" by Andy Duncan
		Bulging gray sacks jogged at their flanks, and swaying atop each mount was a swarthy, bearded rider in flowing robes, with a snarl to rival that of his camel.
		An eagle wheeled across Aksyonov’s portion of sky, and he instinctively turned his head to keep it in view, then caught himself and swung back to focus on the orange parachute as it grew larger and larger–though not quite so large as expected.
		The old woman instantly crossed herself, then realized her error and clapped her hands to her face; but Aksyonov and his Chief could not care less, and the soldier was intent on the romping parachute, as rapt and wide-eyed as a child.
	www.asimovs.com /_issue_0106/stories/chiefdesigner.shtml (4504 words)

	Books: Russian novel loses realism but banishes need for repentance - [Sunday Herald]
		Vassily Aksyonov has a formidable reputation as one of Russia's leading satirical novelists, a master at capturing the poignant absurdities of his country's dizzying post-Soviet condition.
		Aksyonov's principal protagonist is Sasha Korbach, a dissident Russian theatre impresario, director and actor.
		I need her like I need repentance." Aksyonov's book is not an unmixed blessing but there is enough delight to banish all need for repentance.
	www.sundayherald.com /5437 (661 words)

	The Millions (A Blog About Books): Generations of Winter by Vassily Aksyonov
		Aksyonov is writing from firsthand knowledge when his characters are hauled off in the middle of the night by NKVD agents.
		Aksyonov's mother, Evgenia Ginzburg, was sent to the camps when he was five, and he joined her in exile in Siberia when he was 16.
		Aksyonov's book is a sprawling, multi-generational tale set between the years 1925 and 1945.
	www.themillionsblog.com /2005/01/generations-of-winter-by-vassily.html (1003 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Review - The New Sweet Style: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The New Sweet Style, by Russian émigré novelist Vassily Aksyonov, is more than a postmodern wink at the nature of fiction, the absurdities of democratic and totalitarian states, the garish beauty of pop culture, love, death, celebrity, and genetic inheritance.
		And this is where Aksyonov hits his stride: "Before [Alex's] eyes -- the heads of the crowd gradually turned into faces with little wings of applause fluttering beneath their chins.
		Of course, this tumult is what Aksyonov wants the reader to participate in, this thrill of repatriation to life, an appreciation of the libido mixed with the soul.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-01-21/books_vsbr.html (816 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		When a child Vasily Aksyonov sensed how tragic the Stalin time was since he was a son of a party official Pavel Aksyonov who fell victim to repressions together with his wife in the early 1920s.
		Vasily Aksyonov's first stories published by the Russian YUNOST journal in 1958 are keynoted with love of freedom of thinking; their appearance was possible owing to the so-called period of "ideological thaw" on which writers of younger generations pinned much hope.
		Vasily Aksyonov has just finished a new book entitled "The Negative of the Positive Character" which includes stories of recent years; these are part of both Russian and American culture.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch229_eng.html (2369 words)

	Accomplishments and Experiences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		For Maundy Thursday, Aksyonov and his translator Igor Tolochin will share a potluck supper tonight at St. George’s Episcopal Church on Far Hills Avenue in Washington Twp.
		On Wednesday, Aksyonov taught the Old Testament to University of Dayton students and met Kettering city officials.
		But Aksyonov, who smiles shyly through a bushy beard, won’t miss that while here celebrating Easter with Americans.
	www.episcopalian.org /mvern/HolyWeek.htm (494 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		His prose delights in idioms and puns of the sort that madden translators, and the novel ranges from reportorial descriptions of parking lots in Venice, California, to lyrical speculations on cosmology, placing itself squarely in the class of loose, baggy monsters.
		It’s impossible to discredit the work for its lack of cohesiveness, though, given its good-natured refusal to meet that expectation: “We do take leaps, even into the past, within our chapters—modernism is a contagious disease, ladies and gentlemen!” One of these leaps finds Korbach returning to the USSR to lead a revolution.
		Aksyonov somehow manages to equate totalitarianism with traditional realism, so that when we root for the hero to face down a tank, we’re simultaneously rooting for the success of Aksyonov’s sweet, idiosyncratic style.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/00_2/newsweetstyle.html (312 words)

	THE VOICE OF RUSSIA [ COSMONAUT BY PROFESSION ]
		Vladimir Aksyonov also saw the Earth from his aircraft cockpit, since he was a fighter pilot.
		In January 1957 Vladimir Aksyonov was given a job at the Design Office headed of the pioneer of Soviet Cosmonautics Sergey Korolyov.
		Apart from that, Vladimir Aksyonov is an Honorary Citizen of Jefferson County, Kentucky, of the United States.
	www.vor.ru /English/People/programm.phtml?act=6 (1205 words)

	GMU Robinson Professors: Vassily Aksyonow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Trained as a medical doctor, Vassily Aksyonov made his Soviet literary debut in 1960.
		Although perhaps the most popular Soviet writer of prose in the 60s and 70s, he was forced into exile in 1980.
		Aksyonov taught at The Johns Hopkins University and Goucher University before coming to George Mason University.
	www.gmu.edu /robinson/vassily.htm (138 words)

	Evgenia Ginzburg, INTO THE WHIRLWIND
		Ginzburg was born and raised in a Jewish family in Moscow; her father was a pharmacist.
		Her husband, Pavel Aksyonov, was a highly placed member of the Communist Party; he was arrested shortly after she was.
		The older of their two sons, Alyosha, died in the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War; the younger son, Vasilii, reentered her life already as a young man. Ginzburg was first arrested in 1937; after prison, she was sent to a labor camp in Kolyma, where she worked as a nurse.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/sforres1/alum-readings/ginzburg.html (998 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - CSKA keeper remains in coma
		Aksyonov said that Perkhun's condition worsened on Monday night as a result of his transfer from a Makhachkala hospital to a special Moscow military hospital.
		Perkhun, who has an open wound to his skull, was transferred to Moscow on Monday, while Budunov remained in an intensive care ward in a Makhachkala hospital with serious concussion.
		Aksyonov said the club had received thousands of letters and telegrams from across the country, wishing the goalkeeper a speedy recovery.
	www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2001/0821/20010821cskakeeper.html (280 words)

	Vassily Aksyonov Interview with Don Swaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		They discuss the censorship of Aksyonov's writings and Aksyonov talks about life in the former Soviet Union when he began writing during the relatively liberal period for writers after the death of Stalin.
		Vassily Aksyonov talks about what it was like being raised in the Soviet Union while his parents were detained in prisoner camps.
		Aksyonov talks about his discovery of the literary form he used in the book and the significance of its title.
	wiredforbooks.org /vassilyaksyonov (222 words)

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