Russian Postmodernist Fiction - Dialogue with Chaos

This is the first comprehensive study of Russian postmodernism in any language. Mark Lipovetsky takes the reader on a critical tour of twentieth-century Russian literature to develop a specific understanding of Russian postmodernism. In the process he takes on some of the central issues of the critical debate and draws on both Bakhtinian and chaos theory to develop a conception of postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos. Lipovetsky concludes by placing Russian literature in the context of this enriched postmodernism. An appendix with extensive bibliographical notes on contemporary Russian writers and literary theorists complements the study.

List of contents

Editor's Introduction: Postmodernism, Duty-Free Eliot Borenstein I. Introduction 1. Chaos as a System Dialogue with Chaos as a New Artistic Strategy II. Culture as Chaos 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 III. The Poetics of Chaosmos 6. Context: Soviet Utopia 7. Context: Mythologies of Creation 8. Context: Mythologies of History 9. Context: Mythologies of the Absurd 10. Famous Last Words IV. Conclusion 11. On the Nature of Russian Postmodernism

About the author

Mark Lipovetsky, Eliot Borenstein

Product details

• Authors: Eliot Borenstein, Borenstein Eliot, Mark Lipovetsky, Lipovetsky Mark
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.1999
• EAN: 9780765601766
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0176-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Russian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form