Book of the Dead

“The Book of the Dead” is a collection of Limonov’s memoirs about those bright figures that were met in the way. Among them are close and barely familiar, celebrities - Joseph Brodsky, Andy Warhol, Tatyana Yakovleva, Allen Ginzberg - and people are not so famous.

Banding their fates with a cold and detached look, Limonov judges them - as well as themselves - with all severity: My requirements for art are very high, my life cynicism is sharp, like a dangerous razor.



Quotes

“We must talk about the dead about the dead, otherwise, without condemning them, we will not deal with the living. The dead are always more than the living. To be dead is a much more natural state. Therefore - what ceremonies can be here, the dead do not need to regret. What were - they were. They had time, everything that was possible. If you didn’t finish something ... well, we’ll dilute with your hands. ”

“In the literature, as in all arts, the most vivid survives. Amazing, surprising. He receives the whole bank. ”

“Gap, even with a monster, always as a rehearsal of death. Because everything that you have collected: a collection of hugs, evenings, nights, cases, silence - all this is dangerous suddenly. All this is mercilessly killed, they walk in smiles, and part of the life dies. And you stay with fewer life. ”