About the book: 2005 / UDC 882-92 BBK 84 (2Ros-Rus)6 A 41 Editor Elena Shubina Artist Vera Kostina Zenitsa oka. Instead of memoirs / Vasily Aksenov. - M.: Vagrius, 2005. - 496 p. Vasily Aksyonov is the author of novels that always become an event - be it “Star Ticket” or “The Island of Crimea”, “The Burn” or the recent “Voltairians and Voltaireans”. The book “The Apple of the Eye” has the character of a personal diary, in which topical journalism is adjacent to the author’s memories of his youth, about how he came into exile to his mother, Evgenia Ginzburg, about the vicissitudes of emigrant life that followed the publication of the “Metropol” almanac. Literary portraits of friends and like-minded people: Anatoly Gladilin, Yuri Kazakov, Bulat Okudzhava, Andrei Sinyavsky, Anatoly Naiman are adjacent to conversations in which the author “finished” what he did not have time to say in prose and essays. All this together creates, according to Aksenov, “a distinct artistic drive of mixed pieces of time”... ISBN 5-9697-0109-2 © Aksenov V.P., 2005 © Design. JSC "Vagrius"», 2005