Virgo-Death: from The Little Show-Booth by Alexander Blok to The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death by Boris Akunin

The image of Death, embodied in the image of a beautiful maiden, is considered in the article through the analysis of references in the novel diptych by B. Akunin The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death (the Erast Fandorin series) to one of the most important primary sources, the drama by A. B...

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Autor principal:	Olga Fedunina
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Publicado:	Vilnius University 2021
Materias:	Maiden-Death Columbine Carmen Blok Akunin deconstruction Literature (General) PN1-6790 Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:06be6c7da3f04327badd35cb5ce1440d2021-11-23T09:31:07ZVirgo-Death: from The Little Show-Booth by Alexander Blok to The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death by Boris Akunin10.15388/Litera.2021.63.2.90258-08021648-1143https://doaj.org/article/06be6c7da3f04327badd35cb5ce1440d2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/literatura/article/view/25072https://doaj.org/toc/0258-0802https://doaj.org/toc/1648-1143 The image of Death, embodied in the image of a beautiful maiden, is considered in the article through the analysis of references in the novel diptych by B. Akunin The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death (the Erast Fandorin series) to one of the most important primary sources, the drama by A. Blok The Little Show-Booth. The study shows that Akunin's method of deformation was replaced by a postmodern deconstruction with a splitting into two images, of Columbine and of Maiden-Death, each of which is dominated by one of the hypostases of the heroine of The Little Show-Booth. These transformations appeal in their development to the opposition in Akunin’s novels of two points of view on fate, dialectically interacting, which correlate with the adventurous exposition and with the inevitability of personal destiny idea, oriented towards the “classical” tradition. The result of the analysis is a new formula of the genre of Akunin's novels, since their poetics goes out of the ordinary framework of criminal literature, as a transgressive phenomenon in the field of mass literature, as postmodern novel, in which the uncertain intertextuality accentuates, align with plot details, the problem of heroes’ self-identity. Olga FeduninaVilnius University articleMaiden-DeathColumbineCarmenBlokAkunindeconstructionLiterature (General)PN1-6790Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665DEENFRLTRULiteratūra (Vilnius), Vol 63, Iss 2 (2021)
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topic	Maiden-Death Columbine Carmen Blok Akunin deconstruction Literature (General) PN1-6790 Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665
spellingShingle	Maiden-Death Columbine Carmen Blok Akunin deconstruction Literature (General) PN1-6790 Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665 Olga Fedunina Virgo-Death: from The Little Show-Booth by Alexander Blok to The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death by Boris Akunin
description	The image of Death, embodied in the image of a beautiful maiden, is considered in the article through the analysis of references in the novel diptych by B. Akunin The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death (the Erast Fandorin series) to one of the most important primary sources, the drama by A. Blok The Little Show-Booth. The study shows that Akunin's method of deformation was replaced by a postmodern deconstruction with a splitting into two images, of Columbine and of Maiden-Death, each of which is dominated by one of the hypostases of the heroine of The Little Show-Booth. These transformations appeal in their development to the opposition in Akunin’s novels of two points of view on fate, dialectically interacting, which correlate with the adventurous exposition and with the inevitability of personal destiny idea, oriented towards the “classical” tradition. The result of the analysis is a new formula of the genre of Akunin's novels, since their poetics goes out of the ordinary framework of criminal literature, as a transgressive phenomenon in the field of mass literature, as postmodern novel, in which the uncertain intertextuality accentuates, align with plot details, the problem of heroes’ self-identity.
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title	Virgo-Death: from The Little Show-Booth by Alexander Blok to The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death by Boris Akunin
title_short	Virgo-Death: from The Little Show-Booth by Alexander Blok to The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death by Boris Akunin
title_full	Virgo-Death: from The Little Show-Booth by Alexander Blok to The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death by Boris Akunin
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Virgo-Death: from The Little Show-Booth by Alexander Blok to The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death by Boris Akunin

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