The Burn: A Novel in three books (Late Sixties - Early Seventies)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Author: Vassily Aksyonov; Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny
Binding: Hardback
Published: Hutchinson, 1984
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
This landmark work of Soviet literary modernism presents a phantasmagoric portrait of a generation of intellectuals who came of age in the uneasy aftermath of Stalin’s death. Through the intertwined lives of five celebrated yet disillusioned men—a physicist, a musician, a physician, a sculptor, and a writer—the narrative charts a restless pursuit of creative ambition against the grinding weight of political conformity and personal betrayal. Their stories shift between the smoky ferment of 1970s Moscow and the frozen shadows of Siberian exile, where the formative experiences of Tolya von Steinbock anchor the novel’s moral core. Aksyonov constructs a vivid panorama of artistic fervor, ideological compromise, and the corrosive refuge of alcohol, culminating in a tragic collapse of identity. The result is a searing indictment of repression and a testament to the fragile endurance of individuality in a society determined to subsume it.
Author: Vassily Aksyonov; Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny
Binding: Hardback
Published: Hutchinson, 1984
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
This landmark work of Soviet literary modernism presents a phantasmagoric portrait of a generation of intellectuals who came of age in the uneasy aftermath of Stalin’s death. Through the intertwined lives of five celebrated yet disillusioned men—a physicist, a musician, a physician, a sculptor, and a writer—the narrative charts a restless pursuit of creative ambition against the grinding weight of political conformity and personal betrayal. Their stories shift between the smoky ferment of 1970s Moscow and the frozen shadows of Siberian exile, where the formative experiences of Tolya von Steinbock anchor the novel’s moral core. Aksyonov constructs a vivid panorama of artistic fervor, ideological compromise, and the corrosive refuge of alcohol, culminating in a tragic collapse of identity. The result is a searing indictment of repression and a testament to the fragile endurance of individuality in a society determined to subsume it.