His Butler's Story

by Eduard Limonov

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394556070
• ISBN13: 9780394556079
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dangerously beautiful

That is what Limonov's writing is, dangerously beautiful. His characters are so real that you can touch them, smell them, envision them and His Butler's Story is no exception. What is dangerous about his writing, I can't quite say. His main character, Edichka, seems to be flirting with the idea of political assasination and world domination, all at the same time serving lunch to a NYC bourgeois or half-heartedly smoking a joint. The inner workings of a fanatical mind are a scary thing to observe (Dostoevskyesque) and at the same time they are frightningly beautiful. Definately worth the read and re-read and re-re-read...