The Importance of Being Vasya
Кажется, уже все наши mass media отметились материалами об Аксенове. The Moscow News (Mark H. Teeter) предлагает свой ракурс, с которым небезынтересно познакомиться.
Language doesn't operate in a vacuum. Much of your success at fitting into the American-English linguistic environment will depend on how well you work your way into the culture it supports. Aksyonov was one of the great matches of his generation at Soviet-guy-meets-American-stuff: he loved jazz, basketball, nice threads and big cars - as good a shorthand definition of American culture as you're likely to find outside the Kennedy Center.
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