Postmodern Crises

Mark Lipovetsky is professor and chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado-Boulder. He is the author of more than a hundred articles and eight books, as well as co-editor of fifteen volumes on Russian literature and culture. Currently, Lipovetsky is working on a critical biography of Dmitry Prigov and serves as the editor of the poet's collected works. In 2014, Lipovetsky received an award of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages for the outstanding contribution to scholarship.

“As the leading scholar on Russian postmodernism, Lipovetsky has gathered in this volume a range of texts written over the last 20 years that address critical moments in Soviet and Russian cultural history. Whether writing on the prose of Nabokov and Sorokin, on Pussy Riot, or on the films of Loznitsa and Todorovsky, Lipovetsky offers tantalizing readings through a lens that reveals the texts’ potential for fragmentation and destabilization. Lipovetsky’s analysis is always profound, but this volume shows the breadth of his vision, both in the range of genres and the timescale covered.”

• PrefaceLITERATUREThe War of Discourses: Lolita and the Failure of a Transcendental ProjectThe Poetics of the ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and TodayThe Progressor between the Imperial and the ColonialCycles and Continuities in Contemporary Russian LiteratureFlеshing/Flashing the Discourse: Sorokin’s Master TropePussy Riot as the TrickstarThe Formal Is PoliticalFILMPost-Soc: Transformations of Socialist Realism in the Popular Culture of the Late 1990s–Early 2000sWar as the Family Value: My Stepbrother Frankenstein by Valery TodorovskyA Road of Violence: My Joy by Sergei LoznitsaIn Denial: The Geographer Drank His Globe Away by Aleksandr VeledinskyLost in Translation: Short Stories by Mikhail SegalWorks Cited