“A Cassette Has a Double Bottom...”: For the Intertextual Paradoxes of Boris Akunin

Kikhney, Lyubov G.; Gereikhanova, Kamilla Fezameddinovna

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“…It is usually described in separate chapters and parts of genre studies, which analyse specific anti-genre models -anti-utopia, anti-fairy tale, anti-detective story, dark comedies etc. (see, for example, Artyomova, 2017;Comanducci & Wilkinson, 2018;Garipova & Kostyleva, 2019;Gehring, 2016;Leiderman, 2010;Morson, 1981;Peredery, 2018, and others).The term "anti-fairy tale" may be applied to various types of texts within literary discourse: 1) fairy tales per se, but with a tragic or sad rather than https: //doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.08.134 Corresponding Author: Larisa Prokhorova Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN: 2357-1330 1162 the expected happy ending; 2) postmodern reworkings of fairy tales that use the plots of original stories to reflect on the problems of modern society; 3) texts of other genre forms that incorporate some of the elements of the fairy tale genre to create a more vivid contrast between the perfect world of a fairy tale and the real world.…”

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“…The fiction world of the detective genre being ultra-logic and hyper-determined, gives the author a perfect opportunity to create anti-genre texts. There appeared some research works analyzing Boris Akunin's quasi-detective novels built on manifold intertextual links, which transgress genre boundaries blurring the notion of the detective genre (e.g., Desyatov & Karpukhina, 2019;Kikhney & Gereikhanova, 2017).…”

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Anti-Genre Category In Modern Studies: Deconstruction Or Renewal?

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2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Anti-Genre Category In Modern Studies: Deconstruction Or Renewal?

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2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Virgo-Death: from The Little Show-Booth by Alexander Blok to The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death by Boris Akunin

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2021

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The image of Death, embodied in the image of a beautiful maiden, is considered in the article through the analysis of references in the novel diptych by B. Akunin The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death (the Erast Fandorin series) to one of the most important primary sources, the drama by A. Blok The Little Show-Booth. The study shows that Akunin's method of deformation was replaced by a postmodern deconstruction with a splitting into two images, of Columbine and of Maiden-Death, each of which is dominated by one of the hypostases of the heroine of The Little Show-Booth. These transformations appeal in their development to the opposition in Akunin’s novels of two points of view on fate, dialectically interacting, which correlate with the adventurous exposition and with the inevitability of personal destiny idea, oriented towards the “classical” tradition. The result of the analysis is a new formula of the genre of Akunin's novels, since their poetics goes out of the ordinary framework of criminal literature, as a transgressive phenomenon in the field of mass literature, as postmodern novel, in which the uncertain intertextuality accentuates, align with plot details, the problem of heroes’ self-identity.

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Game Strategies as a Principle of Creating Supertext Unity in Work of B. Akunin

Borunov¹

2023

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The article is devoted to the strategies for creating a prosaic super-cycle by Boris Akunin by referring to the technique of the game as a through cycle-forming principle. The relevance of the proposed analysis is due to the fact that the potential for creating principles for creating supertextual unity requires additional research in Russian literary criticism, since in modern literature a number of authors resort to this particular model of arranging their works (in addition to Akunin, these are, for example, Pelevin, Rubina, Vodolazkin, etc.). The novelty of the study is due to the research of how the works of the “Fandorin corpus” are combined into a supertext integrity due to a number of game tactics, including the tactics of an enigmatic-game dialogue with the reader. The classic canon of the detective, set by 19th-century authors, involves a game with the reader based on the calculation of the criminal, and this game is hermetic. Akunin, explicitly referring to the 19th century in the annotations to the New Detective series, opens the game system in the text of the detective story, offering the reader to enter an interactive quest at will. The same principle is used in other works of the “Fandorin corpus”.

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“A Cassette Has a Double Bottom...”: For the Intertextual Paradoxes of Boris Akunin

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Anti-Genre Category In Modern Studies: Deconstruction Or Renewal?

Anti-Genre Category In Modern Studies: Deconstruction Or Renewal?

Virgo-Death: from The Little Show-Booth by Alexander Blok to The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death by Boris Akunin

Game Strategies as a Principle of Creating Supertext Unity in Work of B. Akunin

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