Elena V. Baraban, Stephen M. Norris

The Akunin Project

The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author
Herausgeber: Baraban, Elena V; Norris, Stephen M

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Produktbeschreibung

You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781487508265
• ISBN-10: 1487508263
• Artikelnr.: 59083580

Autorenporträt

Elena V. Baraban is an associate professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba. Stephen M. Norris is the Walter E. Havighurst professor of Russian History and the Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration
1. The Akunin Project: Introduction
Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris
2. Interview with Grigorii Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin)
Part One: Postmodern Detektiv: The Erast Fandorin Series
3. In Search of a Hero: Boris Akunin’s Death of Achilles
Elena V. Baraban
4. Rewriting Homer: Boris Akunin’s Postmodern Approach
Judith Kalb
Part Two: Amateur Detectives: The Sister Pelagia Trilogy and Adventures of
Nicholas Fandorin
5. Tempting the Reader into a Search for Meaning: Boris Akunin’s Pelagia
Trilogy
Claire Whitehead
6. "A Little Theory": Boris Akunin’s "Crime and Punishment"
Zara M. Torlone
Part Three: Buried Secrets and Historical Spies in Akunin’s Works
7. The Mysteries of Moscow: In Which Boris Akunin Impersonates a French
Writer and Reveals a Buried Secret
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
8. Spying on the Past: Boris Akunin’s History of Espionage
Stephen M. Norris
Part Four: Rewriting the History of Russia
9. L’etat, c’est tout: Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State and the
National History Canon
Ilya Gerasimov
10. An Instructional Manual for the Nation: Boris Akunin’s History of the
Russian State
Stephen M. Norris
Part Five: New Pseudonyms and Projects: Anatolii Brusnikin and
Akunin-Chkhartishvili
11. "Under the Wide-Branching Cranberry": Stiob and Allusion in Anatoly
Brusnikin’s The Ninth Saviour
Yekaterina Severts
12. The Family Album: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances
Elena V. Baraban
Part Six: Boris Akunin as a Literary and Commercial Project
13. Socialist Realism Inside-Out: Boris Akunin and Mass Literature for the
Elite
Bradley A. Gorski
14. Boris Akunin and Cross-Media Marketing
Natalia Erlenkamp
15. Conclusion: A Dozen Questions for Boris Akunin
Appendices: Excerpts from Boris Akunin's Untranslated Works
1. Grigorii Chkhartishvili, "If I Were a Newspaper Magnate: Notes of a
Restless Cow" (1999), translated by Bradley A. Gorski
2. "A New Karamzin Has Appeared" and "General Introduction" to The History
of the Russian State, translated by Stephen M. Norris
3. Excerpt from Boris Akunin, Spy Novel (2005), translated by Stephen M.
Norris
4. Excerpt from Anatolii Brusnikin, The Ninth Savior, translated by
Yekaterina Severts
List of Works by Boris Akunin
List of Contributors
Index