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Russian postmodernist fiction : dialogue with chaos
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- Creator
- Mark Lipovetsky ; edited by Eliot Borenstein
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Armonk, NY : M.E.Sharpe, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 331 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780765601766, 0765601761, 9780765601773, 076560177X
- OCLC
- ocm39060541
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index.
- 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 -- 9. Context: Mythologies of the Absurd. Yevgeny Popov: The Jester's Work. Vladimir Sorokin: Narrative Theater of Cruelty -- 10. Famous Last Words -- 11. On the Nature of Russian Postmodernism