"ALTYN-TOLOBAS" BY B. AKUNIN AS A NOVEL-SIMULACRUM
Abstract
The events of the novel "Altyn-tolobas" taking place in two time dimensions: founder of the Russian branch of the Cornelius Von Dorn lives in the seventeenth century. And his descendant Nicholas Alexandrovich Fandorin arrives in Russia at the beginning of. Both characters represent great mystification of Boris Akunin – Fandorin creation of the Russian dynasty – which by internal intertextuality, the presence of many novels and stories writer, created the illusion of reality in his history of the Russian state, sometimes significantly affecting the course of historical events that took place in it. Fandorin in Boris Akunin, in the words of French philosopher J. Baudriyard, is a simulacrum, and the work – a novel-simulacrum, because the author deliberately uses mystification, proving its authenticity modeled his novels in the characters that do not represent any true reality; similar, but not as ambitious, is the image Kozma Prutkov, designed in the nineteenth century. Tolstoy and brothers Zhemchuzhnikovs or in Ukrainian literature beginning in twentieth century. K. Bureviy mystified image hiperfuturysta Edward Strikha for which there was no fundamental reality. Image Cornelius Von Dorn represents the beginning of a gigantic hoax, and the image of Nicholas Fandorin – it is completed.
No wonder, the hero of the novel "Altyn-tolobas" Cornelius Von Dorn, landing in Moscow realities, communicates not only with fictional characters, which in the novel a lot, but also with real historical figures, nobles, ministers personally to the Russian king and heir to the throne. The last of the kind Fandorin Nicholas with any of the great people of Russia are not talking, but it works in modern geographical and topographical realities, forcing the reader to feel their identity as a follower of the real reality that is actually a great simulacrum writer that fits into the trend of modern literary process, when under the influence of globalization rapidly growing kvazidocumentary literature.
