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Title of Article

THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF BORIS AKUNIN?S NOVELS


Issue
1
Date
2022

Article type
scientific article
UDC
82-392:82-94
Pages
74-81
Keywords
исторический роман, детектив, Б. Акунин, Анатолий Брусникин, постмодернистская литература, historical novel, detective, B. Akunin, Anatoly Brusnikin, postmodern literature


Authors
Karpov Anton Dmitrievich
MGU im. N.P. Ogareva


Abstract
The article discusses the historical context that became the basis for B. Akunin's detectives in the cycle The Adventures of Erast Fandorin and novels created under the mask of Anatoly Brusnikin. The author of the article used comparative-historical and holistic methods of analysis of the literary work. The study revealed that Boris Akunin organically combines detective intrigue with elements of historical and adventure-adventure narration. The detective story cycle The Adventures of Erast Fandorin describes the main events of the Russian history of the late 19th - early 20th century. The elements of the historical novel (including real historical figures as characters, the description of past events in order to address contemporary issues), recognizable techniques of mass literature (plot clich?s, detective collision) and post-modernism (quotation, intertextuality) allow the writer to create, conditionally speaking, post-modern historical novels. The texts of Boris Akunin, written under the mask of Anatoly Brusnikin - The Ninth Savior, A Hero of Another Time and Bellona - are devoted to critical periods in Russian history: the reforms of Peter the Great, military conflicts in the Caucasus in the 19th century, the Crimean War. All novels of the project are distinguished by a polyphonism of opinions on the historical development of Russia, the desire to recreate an objective picture of the past. The novels, created under the literary mask, can be called an attempt by G. Chkhartishvili (B. Akunin) to move away from the clich? of the novelist and present a purely authorial interpretation of the events of the past - not a writer, but a chronicler, a chronicler trying to understand the historical patterns, the essence and origins of Russian statehood, to comprehend the causes of “today's day” through the prism of the past

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