A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of
one of Russia's most controversial figures
This is how Emmanuel Carrere, the magnetic journalist, novelist,
filmmaker, chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a
fictional character. There. I know him. He was a rogue in Ukraine;
an idol of the Soviet underground under Brezhnev; a bum, then a
multimillionaire's valet in Manhattan; a fashionable writer in
Paris; a lost soldier in the Balkan wars; and now, in the chaotic
ruins of postcommunist Russia, the elderly but charismatic leader
of a party of young desperados. He sees himself as a hero; you
might call him a scumbag: I suspend my judgment on the matter. It's
a dangerous life, an ambiguous life: a real adventure novel. It is
also, I believe, a life that says something. Not just about him,
Limonov, not just about Russia, but about allour history since the
end of World War II."
So Limonov isn't fictional--but he might as well be. This
pseudo-biography isn't a novel, but it reads like one: from
Limonov's grim childhood; to his desperate, comical, ultimately
successful attempts to gain the respect of Russia's literary
intellectual elite; to his emigration to New York, then to Paris;
to his return to the motherland. "Limonov" could be read as a
charming picaresque. But it could also be read as a troubling
counter-narrative of the second half of the twentieth century, one
that reveals a violence, an anarchy, a brutality that the stories
we tell ourselves about progress tend to conceal.
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