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Chargement... Limonov (2011)par Emmanuel Carrère
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Extremisten-Biografie "Limonow": Pussy Riots düsterer Vorgänger - Nationalbolschewist, Sex-Abenteurer, Selbstdarsteller: Der Schriftsteller Eduard Limonow ist eine der schillerndsten Figuren der russischen Politik und fordert mit provokanten Aktionen den Staat heraus. Eine Biografie widmet sich nun seinem Leben - voller Abscheu und Faszination. “This deft, timely translation of French writer and filmmaker Carrère's sparkling 2011 biography of Eduard Limonov is an enthralling portrait of a man and his times. The subtitle is no exaggeration: Limonov, a prolific and celebrated author, cofounder of Russia's National Bolshevik Party, onetime coleader of the Drugaya Rossiya opposition movement, and current head of Strategy 31 (which organizes protests in Russia aimed at securing the right to peacefully assemble), has led an extraordinary life. Carrère suggests that Limonov's haphazard turns--from budding poet, disillusioned émigré, New York City butler, and Parisian literary rock star to Russian countercultural maverick, Putin opponent, and political prisoner--have been prompted by his drive for adventure and fame . . . Carrère's Limonov never dissolves in a mess of unfathomable contradictions. Instead, he emerges as a mirror through which the vortex of culture and politics in the late-Soviet and New Russian eras is reflected. In this astute, witty account, Limonov has found his ideal biographer. There are few more enjoyable descriptions of Russia today.” “There's an obsession that has always tormented Emmanuel Carrère and that has forced him to become the greatest living French author: to unearth his three demons [deception, savagery, loss], to drive them away, and, if possible, to reveal them to the world through books which prove themselves necessary . . . Limonov . . . is the human being who more than any other embodies Carrère's three demons and adds a crucial one of his own: the desire to challenge the world.” “[Emmanuel Carrère] is probably the most important French writer you've never heard of.” “[An] addictively interesting narrative (nimbly translated by John Lambert) . . . the storytelling in Limonov is fast-paced and full of zest . . . The book grows in both excitement and absurdity as it charts Mr. Limonov's return to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union and his bizarre transformation into an ultranationalist. His National Bolshevik Party makes bedfellows of anti-Semitic extremists, counterculture artists and other social misfits, and, for a time during Boris Yeltsin's incompetent presidency, Mr. Limonov believes he can seize power. Mr. Carrère presents him as a kind of farcical exemplum of a new Russia run by drunks and gangsters--except that he loses out again, this time to Vladimir Putin, who trumps him in brutality and demagoguery just as Brodsky once one-upped him in literary renown. Even when it comes to immoral self-interest, Mr. Limonov is second-best, a failure and a loser. In other words, Mr. Carrère suggests, a hero of our time.” Appartient à la série éditorialeFabula [Adelphi] (251) Gallimard, Folio (5560) Panorama de Narrativas (825) Est contenu dansPrix et récompensesListes notables
"Limonov n'est pas un personnage de fiction. Il existe. Je le connais. Il a été voyou en Ukraine; idole de l'underground soviétique sous Brejnev; clochard, puis valet de chambre d'un milliardaire à Manhattan; écrivain branché à Paris; soldat perdu dans les guerres des Balkans; et maintenant, dans l'immense bordel de l'après-communisme en Russie, vieux chef charisma-tique d'un parti de jeunes desperados. Lui-même se voit comme un héros, on peut le considérer comme un salaud : je suspends pour ma part mon jugement. C'est une vie dangereuse, ambiguë : un vrai roman d'aventures. C'est aussi, je crois, une vie qui raconte quelque chose. Pas seulement sur lui, Limonov, pas seulement sur la Russie, mais sur notre histoire à tous depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale."--P. [4] of cover. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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