MUTATION OF EVALUATION: TEMPORAL TRANSFER OF A CLASSICAL TEXT. V. PELEVIN'S NOVEL T AND B. AKUNIN'S NOVEL F. M.

In this paper the author discusses two recent novels, Viktor Pelevin's T and Boris Akunin's F.M. These are concerned with the life and works of Tolstoi and Dostoevskii respectively. It is demonstrated in terms of "cultural transfer" and "mutation" how the nineteenth-century writers are reflected in these present-day novels.