LEADER 00000nam 2200457Ii 4500 001 sky259455284 003 SKY 005 20141231195806.0 008 140415s2014 nyu 000 1 eng 010 2014004040 020 9780374192013 020 0374192014 040 MvI|beng|erda|cMvI|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 041 1 eng|hfre 092 BIO|bLIMONOV 100 1 Carrère, Emmanuel,|d1957-|eauthor. 245 10 Limonov :|b[The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia] /|cEmmanuel Carrère ; translated by John Lambert. 250 First American edition. 264 1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2014. 300 340 pages ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent. 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 520 "A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures. This is how Emmanuel Carrère, 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 post communist Russia, the elderly but charismatic leader of a party of young desperadoes. 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 all our 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"--|cProvided by publisher. 546 Translated from the French. 600 10 Limonov, Ėduard. 650 0 Artists|zRussia|vBiography. 650 0 Architects|zRussia|vBiography. 650 0 Photographers|zRussia|vBiography. 655 7 NonFiction.|2ssi 655 7 Literary.|2ssi 655 7 Political.|2ssi 700 1 Lambert, John,|d1960-|etranslator. 730 0 Limonov.|lEnglish.
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