The Destruction of Pompeii & Other Stories

by Vasily Aksyonov, Василий Павлович Аксёнов

Stories and novellas, including "The Destruction of Pompeii," "The Steel Bird," "Quest for an Island," "Super-deluxe," "Rendezvous," and "Victory," reveal the everyday life and language of Soviet young people, as well as the struggle between creativity and tyranny

183 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Василий Павлович Аксёнов) was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn (Ожог, Ozhog, from 1975) and Generations of Winter (Московская сага, Moskovskaya Saga, from 1992), a family saga depicting three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.

He was the son of Evgenia Ginzburg, jewish russian writer, teacher and survivor of a stalinist gulag.