Moscow in May

15 hrs. 15 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Eduard Limonov

Narrators Dmitriy Zarayskiy, Bogdan Savenko

Narrator Dmitriy Zarayskiy

Narrator Bogdan Savenko

Description

First published long after it was thought lost, Eduard Limonov’s novel unfolds over three May days in 1969. Yet by sticking to this time span, the author blurs its boundaries: the narrative includes a move with Anna Rubinstein from Kharkov to Moscow, attempts to fit into a diverse poetic community, and searches for housing and income—sewing bags and trousers. Readers are presented with a picture of Moscow at the end of the “Khrushchev Thaw,” steeped in a bohemian atmosphere. Among the characters are Arseny Tarkovsky, Ernst Neizvestny, Ilya Kabakov, Leonid Gubанов and others from SMOG, as well as Igor Kholin, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Anatoly Brusilovsky, Gennady Sapgir and others. Written after the New York trilogy, “Moscow May” comes before it in terms of plot and was created in the mid-1980s in Paris, offering the reader a view of the author in two time planes.