Awards:
RENAUDOT
PRIX DES PRIX
PRIX DE LA LANGUE FRANCAISE

"Limonov is not a fictional character. He exists. We know each other. He was a rogue in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, homeless and then a butler of a billionaire in Manhattan, a fashionable writer in Paris, a lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in the endless brothel of post-communism, an old charismatic leader of a party of young desperados. He sees himself as a hero, others may consider him a scoundrel: on this point, I reserve judgment.

It is a dangerous, ambiguous life: a real adventure novel. It is also, in my opinion, a life that tells us something. Not only about him, Limonov, not only about Russia, but about the history of all of us since the end of World War II."