Аврора Горелика

by Vasily Aksyonov, Василий Аксенов

Vasily Aksyonov, the world-renowned novelist and bearers, unjustly overlooked as a playwright and activist theater scene. In this book the reader for the first time under one cover to find the most complete collection of plays Aksenov. Plays are not similar to each "Always on sale" - a parable, which once determined the ascent of the theater "Contemporary". "The Four Temperaments" reflected the philosophical reflections Aksenov about life after death. And then, "Oh, Arthur Schopenhauer," we all saw the Russian part of the Chinese union. . . But for all the dissimilarity each other play Aksenov singing the praises of women as the beginning of all beginnings. Here is what this writer "I actually heavily feminist, it's time, it seems to me presumptuous curb loons and open a new age of matriarchy like our brilliant XVIII".

512 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Василий Аксенов) 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.