Charms of the cynical reason : the trickster's transformations in Soviet and post-Soviet culture / / Mark Lipovetsky.

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Superior document:Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth century
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Cultural revolutions.
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Physical Description:296 p. :; ill.
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Other title:At The Heart Of Soviet Civilization:
The meaning of the trickster trope;
The trickster's politics;
The trickster trope and the Soviet subjectivity;
Cynical or kynical? --
Khulio Khurenito: the Trickster's Revolution:
Modernizing the trickster;
The method: overidentification;
Why did Khurenito decide to die? --
Ostap Bender: the King Is Born:
Ostap as trickster;
Social schizophrenia;
A kynical king of the cynics --
Buratino: the Utopia of a Free Marionette:
Buratino as a mediator;
Buratino as an artist;
Buratino as a cynic --
Venichka: a Tragic Trickster:
The trickster as the underground author;
Rituals of expenditure;
"I Will Not Explain to You Who Were These Four ..." --
Tricksters In Disguise: The Trickster's Transformations In The Soviet Film Of The 1960s-70s:
"Reformed" tricksters in the comedies of the 70s-80s: Gaidai's Tricksters; Riazanov's Detochkin; Daneliia's Buzykin;
The art of alibi: Stierlitz as the Soviet intelligent : Who are you working for?; The Imperial Mediator; Stierlitz's Afterlife --
Splitting The Trickster: Pelevin's Shape-Shifters:
The society of shape-shifters;
Genealogy of the heroine;
A fairytale about shape-shifters;
The trickster's magic/politics: a bifurcation point;
Cynic versus kynic.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-288) and index.
ISBN:9781934843451 (hardback alk. paper)
1934843458 (hardback alk. paper)
9781618111357 (electronic bk.)
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Mark Lipovetsky.