| Author | Boris Akunin |
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| Original title | Ф.М. |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
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| Publication date | 2006 |
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F.M. (Russian: Ф.М., the initials of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky) is a novel in two volumes by Boris Akunin, which reached bookstores in Russia on 20 May, 2006. This work by the internationally acclaimed author presents a postmodern engagement with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The main character of the book is Nicholas Fandorin, the grandchild of the famous sleuth Erast Fandorin, who seeks the lost variant of Crime and Punishment in modern day Russia. Another character is Porfiry Petrovich, the detective in Crime and Punishment, from whose perspective the story is told. Thus, the story is relayed through two distinct temporal perspectives: 21st century and 19th century. All the characters from Dostoevsky's work have counterparts in the more recent time.
The book was published in Russian in 350,000 copies. According to Akunin, this work was inspired by a song about Dostoevsky written by Boris Grebenshikov.
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| Erast Fandorin series | The Winter Queen · The Turkish Gambit · Murder on the Leviathan · The Death of Achilles · Special Assignments · The State Counsellor · Coronation, or the Last of the Romanovs · The Mistress of Death · The Lover of Death · The Diamond Vehicle · Jade Rosary Beads · Yin and Yang (play) |
| Nicholas Fandorin series | Altyn Tolobas · Extracurricular Reading · F.M. |
| Sister Pelagia series | Pelagia and the White Bulldog · Pelagia and the Black Monk · Pelagia and the Red Rooster |
| Other works | Comedy/Tragedy · Fairy Tales for Idiots · The Seagull |
