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Michel Niqueux
Michel Niqueux, DSc in Philology, Professor Emeritus, University of Caen-Normandie, Cannes, Campus-1, France.
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Abstract:
The article examines Jean de Boishue’s novel “La Vie interrompue de Sergueï Alexandrovitch Essenine” (Paris, Bartillat Publ., 2021. 250 p.) Jean de Boishue (born in 1943) is a grandson of the founder of the Russian House in Saint-Geneviève-des-Bois, Princess Vera Meshcherskaya, a former statesman (adviser to the French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, deputy, member of the State Council). Boishue relies mainly on Eduard Khlystalov, Stanislav and Sergey Kunyaev (but keeps silent about it) and introduces a fictitious retired KGB colonel of the perestroika epoch to investigate the circumstances of S.A. Esenin’s death. The novel is divided into 33 chapters, in which truth and fiction are mixed. The author of any novel is free to interpret events at his own discretion, but incomprehensibly Jean de Boishue made many factual inaccuracies, absurdities and contradictions that undermine the main thesis of this otherwise wellwritten conspiracy novel.
