Politics, aesthetics, ethics in E. Limonov’s novel “Grandfather”

UDC 82.161.1-31

DOI 10.20339/PhS.5-23.097                         

Nichiporov Ilya B.,

Doctor of Philology, Professor of the History of Modern

Russian Literature and Contemporary Literary Process

Lomonosov Moscow State University

e-mail: il-boris@yandex.ru

The article is devoted to E. Limonov’s late novel “Grandfather” (2014) as a phenomenon of autobiographical documentary fiction. The problems and poetics of the work, the image of the narrator, the organization of the character world are considered. The main attention is paid to the correlation of political discourse, aesthetic associations and author’s ethical assessments of Russian public life in the early 2010s and its participants.

Keywords: Eduard Limonov, the reputation of a writer, political discourse in fiction, autobiographical prose, the image of the narrator.

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