Birgit Beumers

Mark Naumovich Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ

New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the consequent boom in drama and why this new breed of authors were writing fierce plays, the focus is on political and social representations of violence, its performances and justifications. Performing Violence seeks a vantage point for the analysis of brutality in post-Soviet culture.

Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

Performing Violence

Marina Balina

Focuses on the highly diverse and controversial literary and cultural life in Russia during the last twenty years of the past century. Major shifts on the political scene influenced Russian literature of these past two decades. Literature managed to find in the political and historical turbulence of this period a source of powerful artistic insight.

Russian Writers Since 1980

Mark Naumovič Lipovetskij 1964- ...

Critically surveys 20th-century Russian literature to develop a specific understanding of Russian postmodernism, looking at work by Aksyonov, Bitov, Erofeev, Pietsukh, Popov, Sokolov, and Tolstaya. Also grapples with some central issues of the critical debate and draws on both Bakhtinian and chaos theory to describe postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos. The appendix provides biographical sketches and primary and secondary bibliographies. Paper edition (unseen) $25.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mark Naumovich Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ

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