L’ipséité nationale face à l’ipséité personnelle dans le roman d’Emmanuel Carrère « Limonov »

Abstract

The article describes how Emmanuel Carrère resurrects a painful period in Russian history through the life story of a politician and writer in his novel "Limonov". It is noted that the approach to a second degree national history achieved in the novel is doubled by the construction of a second degree narrative identity of the character. It concludes that the book as authentic testimony of the past contributes to the restoration of Russia's national selfness which is vital to the perception of its new national identity at the turn of the totalitarian past to the future democracy. This authenticity is realized by the reader because the central character and the author are both faithful to their individual selfness preserved throughout their narrative
identity.