On the Russian classical literature in the émigré prose by Vasily Aksyonov

Many novels by Vassily Aksyonov seemed to the American critics to be untranslatable due to their powerful «allusive resonance» connected with Russian literature. Russian classical literature becomes a strand for all Aksyonov’s works, it naturally builds in both post-Soviet and American reality of his prose, either grotesquely contrasting with it or highlighting the kinship of present day Russians and Americans with its eternal spirituality.