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Written shortly before his fatal heroin overdose at the age of 32 in 1935, Poplavsky's torrid, impressionistic roman à clef reveals the inner and outer life of one of the most striking and outlandish figures among the Russian émigré community in 1920s Paris. Poplavsky reads like a less upbeat Jack Kerouac, not only in the pseudonymous depiction of his bohemian set but in the fervid flood tide of his prose, a headlo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More