Star ticket

A doctor by training, "the anti-adviser" in spirit and brightest innovator in the Russian prose of the twentieth century, Aksenov at the very beginning of its journey outlined the themes and issues that will excite him and in the Mature period of creativity.
First Aksenov's novel marked the beginning of the so-called "youth prose" of the USSR. It was the first time an expression of "the sixties", which became a symbol of a generation and of an era.
The problem of conformism and loyalty to the regime, the willingness for friendship to sacrifice the principles and career prospects - all this will be in prose Aksenova and years later. But nobody will write about it better than the one who first encountered it, I was young and desperately believed in justice.