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matt's avatar

I remember discovering Limonov via the exile/exiled online. Read the three books of his I found in English, and the Emmanuel Carrère book about Limonov as well.

John Dolan wrote a “Note from the Translator” for The Young Scoundrel (Molodoy Niigodyay):

https://www.otago.ac.nz/deepsouth/vol3no3/dolan-xlator-note.html

Didn’t know there was a biopic about him too.

paul's avatar
Jun 13Edited

Please provide an mp3 for people who do not be wish to be depressed by your sly, irrepressible glamour.

This is a nice way of expressing an angry, entitled demand

Yasha Levine's avatar

its there as podcast.

Jonathan Storch's avatar

I read Sankya by Zakhar Prilepin recently. Not bad. Roman a clef based on the author's experiences in the National Bolshevik Party. He makes a composite character out of Limonov and Dugin. Apparently Srebrennikov adapted it into a play. Alexei Navalny contributed the preface to the English translation.

Yasha Levine's avatar

yeah, not a bad novel.

matt's avatar

looking forward to listening to this. will there be audio I can download?

Yasha Levine's avatar

it should show up as a reg audio podcast oo

Michael Pollak's avatar

It does!

You know I think you two are beautiful, but it's already a misdemeanor to listen to this on my bike, I can't watch too :-)

Cynthia's avatar

Serebrennikov is in Paris all the time, he just did Hamlet here and his Bolshoi version of Nureyev in Germany (I sort of speed-watched the latter on ARTE). The adjective you were grasping for might be "over the top". Or just super-gay - one reason for his problems at home, and also why many Western liberals have adopted him.

Yuri Dud did a long interview w/him, in which he prised out tha fact that, so Serebrennikov could leave Russia, the ₽ he "took" from the Gogol Centre were all

paid back by Roman Abramovich (I think it was him; it was certainly one of the bigger oligarchs.)

Yasha Levine's avatar

oh wow thank u for that detail. too funny.