Liminality in Vasilii Aksënov’s Émigré Writing: Literary Traces of His Transit Journey Through Paris
Journal: Зборник Матице српске за славистику
Year: 2024

This paper explores the concept of liminality in the migr writing of Vasilii Aksnov .Aksnov had to leave the Soviet Union in 1980 and spent about three months in Paris and other places in Europe before boarding a plane to the US, his chosen destination.Little is known about his summer in Europe, but the way Aksnov's stories conceive of Paris -a frequent place of action in Aksnov's writing -suggests an influence of his transit journey through Paris on his writing.Paris seems to be a liminal space