84×108/32, hard cover, ill., 816 pp., 2005
ISBN 5-86793-345-8

The memoirs of Valentin Vorobiev span half a century in the world of art. An active member of the “second Russian avant-garde”, Vorobiev revisits his provincial wartime childhood, studies, the culture of the nineteen fifties and vibrant unofficial Moscow art scene of the nineteen sixties. Meet the bohemian crowd frequenting the studios of nonconformist painters: a curious zoo of poets, diplomats, dissidents and black-marketers. Fascinating accounts of the notorious “bulldozer” and Izmailovo exhibitions are followed by the story of Vorobiev’s thirty years spent in France, where many eminent sixties generation Russian artists settled. The history of an entire generation, Enemy of the People reads like a novel on the Russian Montparnasse: vivid, fascinating and entertaining. Valentin Vorobiev’s literary talent is obvious.

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