The story of the life of a man or of a woman is rarely disappointing. When this story comes dEmmanuel Carrère Carrère Dencausse dhelene son, it is not surprising that the author makes his hero live in the "great Russia" Soviet past, the adventures of the past thirty years give more spice to the story. Limonov is however a disreputable kind; marginal, egotistical out, womanizer unscrupulous careerist subtle, violent and fascinated by force. But this is also a known dissident, a man of Russian letter, bestselling author, a torn man, whose complexity awakens at once rejection and sympathy. This complicated hero does not live quen Russia; we follow in New York, London, Paris, Moscow, in the former Yugoslavia. We live with him in lAltaï, before he rejoins a prison camp for twelve years in prison. The hero of Carrère can be extroverted and both secret, cruel and debonair, tormented by sex, ambitious, perverse and moralist. Limonov is this complex character, whose dream dune biography the reader. But this book also makes the rough narrative history of the last thirty years of post-Soviet Russia and allows den understand the key characters: the author does he not go up to make a clone of Putin Limonov. We will not fail to see in this more quune biography narrative. The novelistic talent dEmmanuel Carrère knows how Limonov the dune hero fresco colors supported, but two aspects of the book may offend the reader: a confusing style, sometimes journalistic (author takes the stage), and sometimes the text of a novel service form of reporting.
