Nov 22, 2008

The Burn | The Burn

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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The Burn | The Burn

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