Onomastic Staples of Boris Akunin's Prosaic Supercycles

Abstract

The subject of the study is the onomastic code as a tool for playing with the reader based on the corpus of works by the modern Russian writer B. Akunin and his "author's masks" (Anatoly Brusnikin and Anna Borisova). The object of the research is the use of distortion and change of proper names as a principle of the organization of cycles and supercycles, as well as the vector of the formation of the literary reputation of the author. The authors consider in detail such aspects of the topic as deformation and voluntary change of name / surname, characteristic of the central and secondary characters of the studied corpus of texts. Special attention is paid to the motive of playing with the reader using onomastics as a tool for creating the literary reputation of the author. The main conclusions of the study are: highlighting the principle of onomastic play as end-to-end for the entire work of the modern writer B. Akunin, as well as substantiating the implicit meanings of using this principle in the framework text of works. A special contribution of the authors to the study of the topic is the formulation of the directions of diversification of the motif of the onomastic game and the description of the "opening of the text" and reaching another level of the game with the reader. The novelty of the research lies in the comparison through the prism of cyclical bonds of several literary universes of the same author, which were previously considered as independent projects and were not considered in a single coordinate system.