In the nineties on the shelves of bookstoresDetective novels began to appear about Erast Fandorin. Over time, the character gained wide popularity, which, of course, could not but react to Russian filmmakers, having removed several films from the books of Grigory Chkhartishvili. The prose writer's pseudonym is B. Akunin. However, he is not the only one. The writer also writes under other names.
The article names the pseudonyms of Chkhartishvili and his most famous works. In addition, a brief biography of a contemporary Russian author is presented.
Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili was born in Georgia in1956 year. His father was an artillery officer, his mother a teacher of Russian language and literature. In 1958 the family moved to Moscow. Since then, the hero of our article lives in the capital. The love of literature in the future prose writer awakened one of Alexandre Dumas's novels. Reading, according to the writer, is the best adventure.
Childhood of Grigory Chkhartishvili passed in the centerMoscow. In 1973 he graduated from the school with in-depth study of English. After receiving the matriculation certificate he entered the Institute of Asian and African countries. Everyone who read books published under the most famous pseudonym of Chkhartishvili knows that the writer has devoted much time and effort to studying Japanese culture. And this is not a hobby for him. By profession, the writer is a historian-japanologist.
After graduating from the institute, Chkhartishvili studiedart translation, and he worked not only with the works of Japanese authors. Grigory Chkhartishvili translated English books from such writers as P. Ustinov, TK Boyle, M. Bradbury. From Japanese - works of Yasushi Inoue, Kenji Maruyama, Masahiko Shimada, Shinichi Hoshi, Kobo Abe, Shokhay Ooka.
Even before Chkhartishvili's pseudonym becameknown throughout the reading Russia, the light came out a series of works of contemporary foreign writers "Medicine from boredom." These books were published by "Foreign Literature". Grigory Chkhartishvili was the deputy editor-in-chief for six years. Under his leadership, books from the series "The Anthology of Japanese Literature" also appeared in print.
Grigory Shalvovich periodically publishesdocumentary and critical works, but it does under its own name. Boris Akunin - the most popular literary pseudonym of the XXI century. It originated in 1998. What does this pseudonym mean?
В конце 90-х Чхартишвили публиковал art works under the pseudonym "B.Akunin". "Boris" appeared when all-Russian fame came to the writer. The prose writer's nickname, of course, was taken from the Japanese language. However, there is no exact translation into Russian. "Akunin" means "a villain of the world scale."
The books of Boris Akunin can be read in any order.Each of the works published under this pseudonym is an independent detective story. However, in order to learn the full biography of the famous detective, it is worth reading 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 that happened to Fandorin in his youth.
Akunin's books tell of the adventures of the detective andhis Japanese assistant. However, they can not be called identical. So, in "Peak Valet" we are talking about scammers, which the experienced investigator has not been able to expose. This is quite an easy story, which can be attributed to the genre of adventurous detective. It is included in the collection "Special instructions". In the same book included "Decorator" - a work that tells of a series of terrible murders that took place in Moscow in the late XIX century.
Other books about Erast Fandorin:"Leviathan", "State Councilor", "Death of Achilles", "Turkish Gambit". Works published under the pseudonym Akunin - "Flying Elephant", "Children of the Moon", "Black City", "Falcon and the Swallow" and many others.
In the novel "F.", published in 2006, it is about the adventures of Fandorin, but the actions take place mainly in our time. The fact is that the protagonist of this work is a descendant of the well-known character.
Nicholas Fandorin investigates quite interestingthe case - the disappearance of the manuscript of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Separate chapters are devoted to the events taking place in the XIX century. It is told in them about Raskolnikov, who committed a deliberate murder. The writer Grigory Chkhartishvili proposed his own version of the denouement of the famous novel of the Russian classic.
Quite unusual story 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, the novel contains such historical figures as Kutuzov, Napoleon, Rockefeller.
Under this pseudonym Chkhartishvili for todayday published only three novels. In 2007, the book "Ninth Savior" was published. The historical background of the novel is the reign of Peter I. "The Hero of a Different Time", "Bellona" - other books published by the prose writer under the pseudonym of Anatoly Brusnikin. The latter was published in 2012, and four years before, Grigory Chkhartishvili was very surprised his fans by publishing another novel under the female name.
The novel "Tam" is not detective and notadventure prose. The author in this book is fantasizing about the theme of the other world. What happens to a person after death? What is the payment for sins committed on earth?
The book "There" contains a rather interesting pointview. In the airport waiting room there are several people - representatives of different social strata, nationalities, professions. There is a terrorist attack, all of them perish. But each of the heroes has his own route to the afterlife. Other books published under the pseudonym Anna Borisova - "Creativist", "The Seasons".
