Criticism

Bayley, John. "Kitsch and the Novel." New York Review of Books XXXI, No. 18 (22 November 1984): 28-32.

A review of The Island of Crimea, The Burn, and works by several other Russian authors.

Brown, Deming. Review of The Island of Crimea, by Vassily Aksyonov. Slavic Review 42, No. 2 (Summer 1983): 336-37.

Brief plot synopsis of and introduction to The Island of Crimea.

Eberstadt, Fernanda. A review of The Burn, by Vassily Aksyonov. Commentary 80, No. 1 (July 1985): 39-41.

Discusses the mixture of attitudes Aksyonov takes in The Burn.

Hosking, Geoffrey. "The Ascent out of Inhumanity." Times Literary Supplement 4095 (25 September 1981): 1087.

Discusses Aksyonov's two novels, The Burn and The Island of Crimea, and Aksyonov's place as a novelist of the 1960s.

Matich, Olga. "Vasilii Aksyonov and the Literature of Convergence: Ostrov Krym as Self-Criticism." Slavic Review 47, No. 4 (Winter, 1988): 642-51.

Focuses on the literary style and "antiutopian" quality of The Island of Crimea.

Muchnic, Helen. "From Russia with Candor." The New York Times Book Review (27 February 1983): 1, 32-33.

A review of Metropol, a literary almanac co-edited by Aksyonov and others, published in 1979.

Robinson, Harlow. "From Moscow: fiction, poems, and more." Christian Science Monitor (12 August 1983): B3.

A review of Metropol.