Emmanuel Carro+re , John Lambert (Editor)
Limonov (Penguin Modern Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781846148217
- author:
- Emmanuel Carro+re , John Lambert (Editor)
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
- Genre:
- Biography, Political, Countries & Regions
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Limonov is a life lived in multiple guises. Born into one world, he became something else entirely.
Emmanuel Carrère's subject is not a fictional character, but a man who has embodied many roles: punk-poet and valet to a billionaire, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and charismatic party leader of a gang of political desperados. Through it all, he sees himself as a hero, yet also acknowledges his own bastardity.
Carrère's decision to write about Limonov was driven by a desire to explore how this life, romantic and reckless, speaks to us all after the end of World War II.
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