The Burn (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vassily Aksyonov
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Phantasmagoric
- Time of Work: 1970-1973, with flashbacks to 1949, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1961, and 1968
- Setting: Primarily Moscow, Russia
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Friendship, Antiheroes, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Moscow, Russia
Characters Discussed
Pantelei Apollinarievich Pantelei (pahn- teh-LAY ah-poh-lih-NAH-rih-vihch), also called Pantik, Academician, Pantelyusha, and Pant, a writer. Forty years old in 1972- 1973, he wins at the racetrack, flies to Yalta, and ends up in a sobering-up station. Arrested in Moscow, he shares a dream in jail with the other heroes (Kunitser, Sabler, Khvastishchev, and Malkolmov); their identities merge with one another and with Tolya’s.
Aristarkh Apollinarievich Kunitser (ah- rih-STAHRKH KEW-nih-tsehr), also called Kun, and Arik, a forty-year-old physicist and...
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Vassily Aksyonov (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Vassily Aksyonov (Long Fiction)Vassily Aksyonov (Drama)
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