M. Lipovetsky's new book represents a “dotted” history of the transformation of modernism into postmodernism and further mutations of the latter in post-Soviet culture. The stable basis of this discourse, according to the researcher, are “paralogies” - in other words, thinking outside the norms and boundaries of generally accepted cultural logics. The heuristic and aesthetic possibilities of the “paralogies” of Russian (post)modernism are revealed in the book primarily through a detailed analysis of a wide range of cultural phenomena: from K. Vaginov, O. Mandelstam, D. Kharms, V. Nabokov to Ven. Erofeev, L. Rubinstein, T. Tolstoy, L. Girshovich, from V. Pelevin, V. Sorokin, B. Akunin to G. Bruskin and the Blue Noses group, as well as a number of films and plays of recent times. At the same time, the author is developing a dynamic theory of Russian postmodernism, which makes it possible to fit this trend into the context of Russian culture and determine the significance of postmodern aesthetics as a necessary phase in the historical development of modernism.