Mark Naumovich Lipovetsky (Russian:Mарк Наумович Липовецкий; born June 2, 1964) is a Russianliterary,film, andcultural critic who advocates the position thatpostmodernism is replacingsocialist realism as the dominantart movement in Russia. His major interests include 20th centuryRussian literature,Russianpostmodernism,[1]fairy-tales,Mikhail Bakhtin'scarnival, andtotalitarian and post-communistcultures.
Lipovetsky was born inYekaterinburg, and he attended school there. He moved to the U.S. in 1996.[2] He was a professor within the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and a joint faculty member of the Comparative Literature Program at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder.[3] In 2019, he joined the Slavic Department atColumbia University with a goal of focusing on contemporary Russian culture within theHarriman Institute.[4] In 2021, he andVadim N. Gladyshev received the George Gamow Award, named for the Russian-speaking physicistGeorge Gamow.[5]
Lipovestky is the author or co-author of five books and more than seventy articles. His works includeRussian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos (1999),Russian Postmodernism: The Essays of Historic Poetics (1997),Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama (2009), andCharms of the Cynical Reason (2011).[6][7]
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