CREATION OF THE FANDORINS DYNASTY IN RUSSIA AS A GREAT HOAX OF BORYS AKUNIN

Abstract

The characters of Boris Akunin’s novel “Altyn-tolobas” Cornelius von Dorn and Nicolas represent a great hoax of the author — the creation of the Russian dynasty — the Fandorins. They created the illusion of their reality in the history of Russia by their internal intertextuality, by presence in many novels and stories of the writer, thereby affecting the course of historical events that took place in it. Fandorin is a simulacrum, because the author consciously uses a hoax, proving with it an illusion of authenticity of the events in the novels, modelled by him and not representing any actual reality.