A Champion for the Bourgeoisie. Reinventing Virtue and Citizenship in Boris Akunin’s Novels
Publication date
Friday, 02.04.2004
Authors
Leon Aron
Series
The National Interest. Spring 2004
Annotation
With this summer's publication by Random House of The Winter Queen, the American reader will finally have a chance to savor what is without doubt the most interesting phenomenon in Russia's contemporary literary marketplace. Published in 1998 as Azazel, it was the first detective novel by the then 42-year-old Grigory Chkhartishvili, a professional philologist, literary critic, editor and translator of classic Japanese literature who writes under the pseudonym Boris Akunin.
With this summer's publication by Random House of The Winter Queen, the American reader will finally have a chance to savor what is without doubt the most interesting phenomenon in Russia's contemporary literary marketplace. Published in 1998 as Azazel, it was the first detective novel by the then 42-year-old Grigory Chkhartishvili, a professional philologist, literary critic, editor and translator of classic Japanese literature who writes under the pseudonym Boris Akunin.
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Dr. Leon Aron,
A resident scholar at AEI
"The National Interest"
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