F.M. (novel)

F.M.

Author	Boris Akunin
Original title	Ф.М.
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Genre	Novel
Publication date	2006
Media type	Print

F.M. (Russian: Ф.М., the initials of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and also probably a pun on FM radio) is a novel in two volumes by Boris Akunin, which reached bookstores in Russia on 20 May 2006.

This work 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.

External links

Official site in Russian (abandoned then parked since June, 2007; see the archived copy)

Works by Boris Akunin

Erast Fandorin series	The Winter Queen The Turkish Gambit Murder on the Leviathan The Death of Achilles Special Assignments The State Counsellor The Coronation She Lover of Death He Lover of Death The Diamond Chariot Jade Rosary Beads All the World's a Stage The Black City

Nicholas Fandorin series	Altyn Tolobas Extracurricular Reading F.M. Falcon and Swallow

Sister Pelagia series	Pelagia and the White Bulldog Pelagia and the Black Monk Pelagia and the Red Rooster

Adaptations	Azazel (2002) The Turkish Gambit (2005) The State Counsellor (2005) Spy (2012)

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