Eduard Limonov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1974. At that time, he already was a mature poet of the Moscow literary underground. Like most Russian emigrants, Limonov was disillusioned with America, where he was neither understood nor recognized. In the evolution of his poetry the anthropological issues are replaced by the social ones. On the one hand, his poems unveil a strong critique of unjust America, on the other — the yearning for the abandoned homeland. Crucial in his literary output is love poetry dedicated to Yelena Shchapova, who left the poet in New York. Limonov’s poetry of the Paris period does not offer sharp critique of French reality but it presents the poet’s ponderings over the sense of life, human fate, and loneliness. The motives that concern love and the poet himself take a new literary form. Yearning for homeland comes to the foreground.
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Vol. 26 (2016)
Published: 2020-07-15
10.31261/RSL
English
Język Polski
Русский