--- John Mage <jmage at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking of which, as a result of getting painted -
> it took 6 weeks! - i
> was consumed with rage at those responsible for
> managing the apartment
> house i live in and to divert my emotions read the 3
> Limonov
> autobiographical novels available in english at the
> columbia libe: It's
> Me - Eddie! (the only one i had read before, back in
> the early 80s), His
> Butler's Story and Memoir of A Russian Punk.
You're in luck! Diary of a Loser, the third book in the "New York Trilogy" (second, chronologically), was finally translated into English in 2002 and published in a Russian-English parallel text edition (despite having been written in 1983). Limonov is a very prolific writer -- probably only about a tenth of his stuff has been translated. He wrote ten books just the year he spent in jail. He hasn't written a novel for some time though -- it's political stuff, accounts of his fighting alongside the Serbs in Yugoslavia and the Cossacks in Moldova, comments on people he admires, his prison diary and so forth.
>
> Do the NatBol kids read these novels? How about his
> hilarious and quite
> touching account in It's Me - Eddie! of having great
> NYC outdoor sex with -
> in fact really making love with - a black homeless
> man?
Why not? That's what he was famous for in the first place. The Natsbols are neither racists nor homophobes.
>
> The recent accounts of KPRF & Limonov getting
> together have to be a good
> sign. Do the eXile crew still hang out with him?
>
Yup. He writes a column for them just about every issue, a lot of which have been put up on the English-language version of the NBP's website in the "WORD OF OUR LEADER" archive: http://www.nbp-info.org/wordofourleader/
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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