TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lipovetsky, Mark
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.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt21h4wjt
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006475
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135853852
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Soviet studies
KW  - Postmodern Russia
KW  - Russian cinema
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/bca0cbd0-2d17-4f7f-9d95-543ea6116b4b/1006475.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23668
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PY  - 2010-12-01
SN  - 9781618118509
TI  - Charms of the Cynical Reason : The Trickster's Transformation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
ER  - 
