The Resource Limonov, Emmanuel Carrère ; translated from the French by John Lambert
Limonov, Emmanuel Carrère ; translated from the French by John Lambert
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The item Limonov, Emmanuel Carrère ; translated from the French by John Lambert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York.
This item is available to borrow from 7 library branches.
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- Summary
- "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 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 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 itreads 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"--
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Note
- "The outrageous adventures of the radical Soviet poet who becam a bum in New York, a sensation in France, and a political antihero in Russia" --Cover
- Isbn
- 9780374192013
- Label
- Limonov
- Title
- Limonov
- Statement of responsibility
- Emmanuel Carrère ; translated from the French by John Lambert
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Summary
- "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 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 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 itreads 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"--
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2014
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10361586
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Carrère, Emmanuel
- Dewey number
- 843/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PQ2663.A7678
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Lambert, John
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- True
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- Limonov, Ėduard
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- Target audience
- adult
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- 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
- Label
- Limonov, Emmanuel Carrère ; translated from the French by John Lambert
- Note
- "The outrageous adventures of the radical Soviet poet who becam a bum in New York, a sensation in France, and a political antihero in Russia" --Cover
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- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374192013
- Lccn
- 2014004040
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- unmediated
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- Limonov, Emmanuel Carrère ; translated from the French by John Lambert
- Note
- "The outrageous adventures of the radical Soviet poet who becam a bum in New York, a sensation in France, and a political antihero in Russia" --Cover
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
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- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374192013
- Lccn
- 2014004040
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- unmediated
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