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'A Life 'In A Burning Skin' essay by Jürgen Serke in 'The Banned Poets', Hamburg 1982, ISBN3-8135-0826-9.'The Poet Vasily Aksyonov' essay 1980 and thesis of Herbert Gantschacher for obtaining the academic title 'Master of Arts' at the Academy, today University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Re / 1653/1988, July 1988.The Four Temperaments' published in the Literary Almanac 'Metropol', New York and London 1979, ISBN8-X.Voltairian Men and Women ('Вольтерьянцы и вольтерьянки' – Volteryantsy i volteryanki, 2004 – won the Russian Booker Prize).Yolk of the Egg (written in English, author's translate in Russian - 'Желток яйца' - Zheltok yaytsa, 1989).Aksyonov thus reportedly became 'a leading figure in the so-called 'youth prose' movement and a darling of the Soviet liberal intelligentsia and their western supporters: his writings stood in marked contrast to the dreary, socialist-realist prose of the time.' 'Aksyonov's characters spoke in a natural way, using hip lingo, they went to bars and dance halls, had premarital sex, listened to jazz and rock'n'roll and hustled to score a pair of cool American shoes.' 'There was a feeling of freshness and freedom about his writings, similar to the one emanating from black-market recordings of American jazz and pop.' 'He soon became one of the informal leaders of the Shestidesyatniki – which translates roughly as 'the '60s generation' – a group of young Soviets who resisted the Communist Party's cultural and ideological restrictions.' 'It was amazing: We were being brought up robots, but we began to listen to jazz,' Aksyonov said in a 2007 documentary about him.' In the 1960s Aksyonov was a frequent contributor to the popular Yunost ('Youth') magazine and eventually became a staff writer.
