A Ticket to the Stars (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vassily Aksyonov
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Summer, 1960
- Setting: Moscow and the Baltic coast
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, Education or educators, Youth, Moscow, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Moscow, Russia, Baltics
Characters Discussed
Dimka, a seventeen-year-old who has recently been graduated from high school. He represents the generation of Russian youth born during World War II, who have little firsthand knowledge of the hardships that their parents experienced. Having completed his secondary education, he is faced with the decision of whether to continue his education or to seek a job. Even though he loves his parents and admires his older brother, Victor, a space scientist, Dimka leaves home and Moscow, mainly because he wants to make his own decisions for the first time in his...
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