Postmodern Crises听collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky鈥檚 articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture. The reader will find here articles about classic subversive texts (such as Nabokov鈥檚听Lolita), performances (Pussy Riot), and recent, but also subversive, films. Other articles discuss such authors as Vladimir Sorokin, such sociocultural discourses 听as the discourse of scientific intelligentsia; post-Soviet adaptations of Socialist Realism, and contemporary trends of 鈥渃omplex鈥� literature, as well as literary characters turned into cultural tropes.
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