Lipovetsky, Mark <br/><br/>
Charms of the Cynical Reason  The Trickster's Transformation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture / 
Mark Lipovetsky. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781618118509 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union<br/>Literature--History and criticism
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.