TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mark Lipovetsky
AB  - The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-Soviet tricksters, including such “cultural idioms” as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Vasilii Tyorkin, Stierlitz, and others. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory, and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as a field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-Soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, and contradictions, and by these means its historical development from the 1920s to the 2000s.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 19385
KW  - literature
KW  - Soviet culture
L1  - http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54132b01e4b0f5bf7ad3ed92/t/57682c5715d5dbe6c6b7e213/1466444891005/Charms+of+the+Cynical+Reason.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43042
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PY  - 2010
SN  - 9781934843451
TI  - Charms of the Cynical Reason: Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culturenull
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