Word: elena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even before the proposal of the new rules, legal aid attorneys across the country were thoroughly demoralized. "Every thing is an emergency," says Los Angeles' Elena Ackel. "There were 33 messages on my on desk today,and all of them had'urgent' on them." The numberof Legal Services-funded lawyers has declined from a high of 6,337 in 1981 to 4,791 today. The 326 organizations that receive LSC grants have had to close more than 300 of the 1,475 offices they operated two years ago. Those who are able to make their...
...fucking much." Yet he engages in varying forms of sexual activity with a startling array of partners--with rich women, poor women, ugly men, handsome men, old and young, with bums he meets in parking lots at night, with everyone, in fact, but his ex-wife Elena, the only one of these who excites, pains, and motivates him. When Elena, a failed and bitchy fashion model who cares for nothing but lovers and negligee, finally shows up in the novel's last few pages, the premise on which the book is based turns into a terrific anticlimax...
LIMONOV, however, is writing not about losing a wife but about losing a country. Elena's defection spurs Eddie's fantasies and seductions, the meat of the novel. Yet it is his move to America that gives her the freedom to leave him in the first place. Thus she becomes a symbol for the losses the exile must suffer in his adopted home. As the imaginary object for all Eddie's nostalgic yearnings for the old country. Elena is naturally less wonderful in reality than in memory...
...urge others to emigrate without ever having been in the West themselves is, then, understandable. Limonov repeatedly attacks that paragon of dissidents Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for instigating Eddie's immigration. For Eddie, Solzhenitsyn is a propaganda artist. In one scene, "the prophet" talks on television; while frustrated Eddie and Elena make their big statement by having intercourse in front...
...Eddie the child, the streets of New York are a playground. There he cavorts with the lowest of the low, enjoying great sexual satisfaction with bums and bagwomen, while at once mourning the loss of his ideal love, his "Angel Fucker," Elena, whom the rich have spirited away. Thus Limonov hopes to demonstrate the vacuity of American culture; all emigres, not only Eddie, have betrayed their own natures by giving up a homeland where there is at least a little love (though we are never told why this is so) for a place which offers no love, and money...