{"title":"Books by Mark Lipovetsky","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780691207162","title":"All the World on a Page","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria Stepanova\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Russian cultural tradition treats poetry as the supreme artistic form, with Alexander Pushkin as its national hero. Modern Russian lyric poets, often on the right side of history but the wrong side of their country’s politics, have engaged intensely with subjectivity, aesthetic movements, ideology (usually subversive), and literature itself. \u003ci\u003eAll the World on a Page\u003c\/i\u003e gathers thirty-four poems, written between 1907 and 2022, presenting each poem in the original Russian and an English translation, accompanied by an essay that places the poem in its cultural, historical, and biographical contexts. The poems, both canonical and lesser-known works, extend across a range of moods and scenes: Velimir Khlebnikov’s Futurist revolutionary prophecy, Anna Akhmatova’s lyric cycle about poetic inspiration, Vladimir Nabokov’s Symbolist erotic dreamworld, Joseph Brodsky’s pastiche of a Chekhovian play set on a country estate, Maria Stepanova’s pandemic allegory of political repression, Galina Rymbu’s energetic manifesto “My Vagina.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn introduction explores the abiding inspiration of modernism on the Russian lyric tradition. Kahn and Lipovetsky's separate chapter essays, informed by extensive knowledge of the existing scholarship and critical styles of interpretation, consider how the interplay of originality and tradition and form and voice work to engage the reader. The poems themselves, many of them in newly commissioned translations, operate outside state-mandated poetic styles to address the reader directly, “tête-à-tête,” as Brodsky said in his 1987 Nobel lecture. With each chapter devoted to a different poem, \u003ci\u003eAll the World on a Pag\u003c\/i\u003ee allows readers to experience the richness of Russian poetry through poems and poets rather than through movements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311850893685,"sku":"9780691207162","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691207162_ea7cbad5-f573-44e0-addc-cc4e79ec3fe5.jpg?v=1786015294"},{"product_id":"postmodern-crises","title":"Postmodern Crises","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostmodern Crises\u003c\/i\u003e collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky’s articles on Russian literature and film. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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’s \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e), performances (Pussy Riot), and recent, but also subversive, films.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther articles discuss such authors as Vladimir Sorokin, such sociocultural discourses as the discourse of scientific intelligentsia; post-Soviet adaptations of Socialist Realism, and contemporary trends of “complex” literature, as well as literary characters turned into cultural tropes (the Strugatsky’s progressors). The book will be interesting for teachers and scholars of contemporary Russian literature and culture; it can be used both in undergraduate and graduate courses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57484319392117,"sku":"9781644696651","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57688229478773,"sku":"9781618115584","price":77.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644696651_153a7859-cd7c-4596-976a-7ce7668697ad.jpg?v=1792686170"},{"product_id":"the-soviet-trickster","title":"The Soviet Trickster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Soviet Trickster \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eexplores narratives in Soviet and post-Soviet culture featuring rogues, swindlers, and improbable adventurers who enjoyed widespread popularity across Russia.\u003c\/b\u003e These figures simultaneously mocked and justified the pervasive culture of Soviet cynicism, facilitating subversive counter-narratives that challenged the power and incompetence of the state. Mark Lipovetsky thoroughly analyzes the most remarkable and popular Soviet tricksters in literature, film, visual art, and performance, discussing different facets of the trickster: their nihilistic revolutionary messianism, problematic ethics, role within the Soviet empire, and connections to underground culture and gender politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the combination of seemingly incompatible features thanks to its ambivalent and transgressive nature, the trickster becomes a parody and deconstruction of the Soviet \"messiah\" – the new Soviet man envisioned by communist propaganda. \u003ci\u003eThe Soviet Trickster\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how after the collapse of the USSR, the trickster loses its critical potential and aligns with authoritarian power, serving as its populist avatar. Nonetheless, tricksters remain inexhaustible: they constantly reinvent themselves to sabotage new forms of political cynicism and authoritarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57504884162933,"sku":"9781501789984","price":116.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781501789991_e135d8ef-e90e-4f81-a3ed-d207773f3dc2.jpg?v=1792511751"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-mark-lipovetsky.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}