In the nineties, detective novels about Erast Fandorin began to appear on the shelves of bookstores. Over time, the character gained wide popularity, which, of course, Russian cinematographers could not help but respond to by making several films based on the books of Grigory Chkhartishvili. The prose writer's nickname is B. Akunin. However, he is not the only one. The writer writes under other names.
The pseudonyms of Chkhartishvili and his most famous works are named in the article. In addition, a brief biography of the modern Russian author is presented.
early years
Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili was born in Georgia in 1956. His father was an artillery officer, his mother was a teacher of Russian language and literature. In 1958, the family moved to Moscow. Since then, the hero of our article has been living in the capital. The love of literature in the future prose writer was awakened by one of the novels of Alexander Dumas. Reading, according to the writer, is the best adventure.
Grigory Chkhartishvili’s childhood passed in the center of Moscow. In 1973, he graduated from school with in-depth study of the English language. After receiving a certificate of maturity, he entered the Institute of Asian and African countries. Everyone who read books published under the most famous pseudonym Chkhartishvili knows that the fiction writer has devoted a lot of time and energy to the study of Japanese culture. And this is not a hobby for him at all. By profession, the writer is a Japanese historian.
Translation Activities
After graduation, Chkhartishvili was engaged in literary translation, and he worked not only with the works of Japanese authors. Grigory Chkhartishvili translated books from such writers as P. Ustinov, T.K. Boyle, M. Bradbury from English. From Japanese - works by Yasushi Inoue, Kenji Maruyama, Masahiko Shimada, Shinichi Hoshi, Kobo Abe, Shokhei Ooka.
Publishing
Even before the pseudonym Chkhartishvili became known to the whole of reading Russia, a series of works by modern foreign prose writers "The Cure for Boredom" was published. These books were published by Foreign Literature. For six years, the deputy editor-in-chief of the publishing house was Grigory Chkhartishvili. Under his leadership, books from the Anthology of Japanese Literature series were also published .
Grigory Shalvovich periodically publishes documentary and critical works, but he does it under his own name. Boris Akunin is the most popular literary pseudonym of the 21st century. It arose in 1998. What does this alias mean?
Boris Akunin
In the late 90s, Chkhartishvili published works of art under the pseudonym B. Akunin. "Boris" appeared when the writer gained all-Russian fame. The prose writer, of course, took it from the Japanese language. However, an exact translation into Russian does not exist. “Akunin” means “world-class villain.”
The books of Boris Akunin can be read in any order. Each of the works published under this pseudonym represents an independent detective story. However, in order to find out the full biography of the famous detective, you should read all the stories from the series "The Adventures of Erast Fandorin". And you need to start with the book "Azazel", published in 1998. This story tells the story of Fandorin in his youth.
Akunin's books tell of the adventures of a detective and his Japanese assistant. However, they cannot be called the same type. So, in “Jack of Spades” we are talking about scammers, which an experienced investigator never succeeds in exposing. This is quite an easy story, which can be attributed to the genre of adventure detective. She is included in the book "Special Assignments". The Decorator is also included in the same book, a work that tells of a series of terrible murders that took place in Moscow at the end of the 19th century.
Other books about Erast Fandorin: “Leviathan”, “State Counselor”, “Death of Achilles”, “Turkish Gambit”. The works published under the pseudonym Akunin are Flying Elephant, Children of the Moon, Black City, Falcon and the Swallow and many others.
In the novel "F.M.", published in 2006, we are talking about the adventures of Fandorin. However, actions take place mainly in our time. The fact is that the protagonist of this work is a descendant of a well-known character.
Nicholas Fandorin is investigating a rather interesting case - the loss of the manuscript of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Separate chapters are devoted to events taking place in the 19th century. It is told in them about Raskolnikov who committed the intentional murder. The writer Grigory Chkhartishvili proposed his own version of the denouement of the famous novel of the Russian classic.
Quite unusual is the plot and structure of the novel "Quest". Each chapter of the first part ends with a question that the reader should answer. The second is an independent work. Along with fictional characters, in the novel there are such historical figures as Kutuzov, Napoleon, Rockefeller.
Anatoly Brusnikin
Under this pseudonym, Chkhartishvili has published only three novels to date. In 2007, the book Ninth Savior was published. The historical background of the novel is the years of the reign of Peter I. "Hero of a different time", "Bellona" - other books published by a prose writer under the pseudonym Anatoly Brusnikin. The latter was published in 2012, and four years earlier, Grigory Chkhartishvili very surprised his fans by publishing another novel under a female name.
Anna Borisova
The novel "There" is not a detective story or an adventure prose. The author in this book fantasizes on the subject of the other world. What happens to a person after death? What is the price of sins committed on earth?
The book There contains a rather interesting point of view. In the airport lounge there are several people - representatives of different social backgrounds, nationalities, and professions. There is a terrorist attack, they all die. But each of the heroes has its own route through the afterlife. Other books published under the pseudonym Anna Borisova - "Creative Worker", "Seasons".