The "alien child" motif as a through code in the prosaic macrocycles of Boris Akunin and Dina Rubina

• Published in: Litera no. 6; pp. 175 - 182
• Main Authors: Borunov, Artem Borisovich, Pinaev, Sergei Mikhailovich, Sil'cheva, Alina Georgievna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.06.2022
• ISSN: 2409-8698; 2409-8698
• DOI: 10.25136/2409-8698.2022.6.38358

The subject of the study is a cross-cutting code that unites the prose macrocycles of modern authors as a supertextual unity. The object of the research is a macrotext as a format of a literary work in the works of writers Dina Rubina and Boris Akunin. The authors consider in detail such aspects of the theme as the cross-cutting theme of a strange / adopted / unrecognized / illegitimate child and its connection with the clan and family, and the implementation of this theme in novels united in trilogies or macrocycles. Particular attention is paid to such an aspect of the motif as the onomastic code - distortion, change, re-voicing of the name and surname of the protagonist becomes a recurring motif. The main conclusions of the study are: a statement of the homological similarity of the supertextual unities of the works of contemporary prose writers, highlighting the motive of the interaction of the genealogical tree of the family with someone else's child, its self-identification as part of the family and woven into the fabric of the family and its history as the bifurcation point of the macrotext. A special contribution of the authors to the study of the topic is the consideration of this motif in its diversified interpretation in various works and the connection of this motif with the onomastic code of the works. The novelty of the study lies in the comparison of the works of Boris Akunin and Dina Rubina, which were not previously considered in a comparative aspect.