TY - BOOK AU - Lipove�t�ski�i,M.N. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Charms of the cynical reason: the trickster's transformations in Soviet and post-Soviet culture T2 - Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth century AV - PG3096.T75 L56 2011eb U1 - 891.73/409352 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Boston PB - Academic Studies Press KW - Russian fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Tricksters in literature KW - Tricksters in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - Soviet Union KW - History KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Literature and society KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-288) and index; 1; 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? --; 2; Khulio Khurenito: the Trickster's Revolution; Modernizing the trickster; The method: overidentification; Why did Khurenito decide to die? --; 3; Ostap Bender: the King Is Born; Ostap as trickster; Social schizophrenia; A kynical king of the cynics --; 4; Buratino: the Utopia of a Free Marionette; Buratino as a mediator; Buratino as an artist; Buratino as a cynic --; 5; Venichka: a Tragic Trickster; The trickster as the underground author; Rituals of expenditure; "I Will Not Explain to You Who Were These Four ..." --; 6; 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 --; 7; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10528136 ER -