Russian postmodernist fiction : dialogue with chaos / Mark Lipovetsky ; edited by Eliot Borenstein.

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Main Author: Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich)
Other Authors: Borenstein, Eliot, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, ©1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editor's Introduction: Postmodernism, Duty-Free / Eliot Borenstein
  • 1. Chaos as a System. The Russian Oxymoron. Postmodernism Plus/Minus Modernism? Intertextual Play. Subverted Dialogism. Dialogue with Chaos as a New Artistic Strategy
  • 2. Sacking the Museum: Andrei Bitov's Pushkin House
  • 3. From an Otherwordly Point of View: Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow to the End of the Line
  • 4. The Myth of Metamorphosis: Sasha Sokolov's A School for Fools
  • 5. Active Nonbeing
  • 6. Context: Soviet Utopia. Vasily Aksyonov: Utopia as a Fantasy. Yuz Aleshkovsky: Bodies versus Ideas
  • 7. Context: Mythologies of Creation. Tatyana Tolstaya: In the Broken Mirror. Sasha Sokolov (1980): Chaos Speaks. Lev Rubinshtein: Creation of the Kaleidoscopic Self
  • 8. Context: Mythologies of History. Vyacheslav Pietsukh: "The Enigma of the Russian Soul" Revisited. The "Historical" Stories of Viktor Erofeyev: An Apotheosis of Particles. Sasha Sokolov (1985): Self-Portrait on a Timeless Background.