THE POSTMODERNISM PLAY IN THE PAGES AKUNIN’S NOVEL “ZVEZDUKHA”

Abstract

There is increased interest in history as a basis for searching the answers to many questions of our time recently. The historical project by B. Akunin clearly demonstrates improved author’s methods well knowns of his early works. The article analyzes B. Akunin’s controversial view of the Horde invasion of Old Russia a difficult period in its history. The writer deconstructs the chrestomatic representation of that era, depicting it from different angles: the publicist (“Part of Asia”) and the fiction (“Zvezdukha”). Such textual polyphony allows Akunin to involve readers in a kind of postmodern game with history. In such a way, B. Akunin not just shows and analyses events of the past but also creates the complex fictional text with filled a lot of description of the era and transformations of the main characters against the background of history.