Russian detectives - a new genre of modern literature

Detective is, perhaps, the most popular genre of popular literature and cinema around the world. Many books of this direction became truly bestsellers. Recently, we can talk about the formation of a separate layer of literature called "Russian detectives." These are special works, present in huge quantities on the shelves of bookstores. Russian detectives, as a rule, come out in a series of books, narrate about the adventures of the protagonist, who can be anyone: from a professional, a special agent to an inquisitive housewife with the inclinations of a private detective. It is exactly who the main character is, and the future target audience of the readers of the work is determined.

What's the secret?

Russian detectives are popular, because they are events from familiar to all Russians reality, simple and understandable to the man in the street things. As a rule, against the backdrop of a dashingly twisted plot develops the love relationship of the main character. True, the ending of the work is not always as unexpected as the legendary Agatha Christie. Reading Russian detectives is easy, because the authors have a light syllable and their own style of presentation. The reader is completely immersed in the events of the novel, being distracted from their own problems. And this is an important moment of psychological detente. The popularity of detectives is also attached to their design. After all, more often than not such books are issued in soft cover, small format, convenient for reading on the road and budget-priced. Fans of this genre can buy a collection of detectives. Such volumes have been published by the Ripol Classic publishing house for several years . In each such collection of more than 20 works by various authors.

Who writes?

Russian detectives are a whole industry built on the cooperation of authors and publishers. And writers, indeed, a great many. Perhaps the most popular now works of the following authors: Boris Akunin, Chingiz Abdullaev, Andrei Konstantinov, Alexandra Marinina, Tatiana Ustinova, Daria Dontsova. I repeat that the list of creators of detective novels is endless and replenished with new creators. Each reader chooses for their own taste what to prefer. To date, the most popular are the following works in the genre of "detective":

• "The Adventures of Erast Fandorin" (B. Akunin).
• "The Beetle in the Anthill" (the Strugatsky brothers).
• "Green van" (A. Kozachinsky).
• "The Genome" (S. Lukyanenko).
• "Madness" (A. Bushkov).
• "Antikiller" (D. Koretsky).
• "Under the guise of Santa Claus" (S. Mertsalova) and others.

The way from book to cinema

The best Russian detectives have recently been screened and published in the form of serials on popular TV channels. Take, for example, the works of Tatiana Ustinova or Boris Akunin - almost all of them made films. And the script is often significantly different from the literary work. For sure, many will agree that the process of screening finally deprives the viewer of the opportunity to fantasize and guess. For example, when reading a novel, each reader imagines himself the appearance of heroes in his imagination and does not always remain satisfied with the selection of actors. In addition, the film can not fully show the thoughts and feelings of the characters, reflect their emotional throwing and character traits as described in the book. Here we can only hope for the skill of the actors who felt the character.

From the latest book novelties, we recommend reading: "The Chronicles of Detective" (N. Svechin), "Kotov offend is not recommended" (E. Mikhalkov), "Peculiarities of Women's Love" (Litvinov), "Immediately after the creation of the world" (T. Ustinov) and etc.

Thus, the new Russian detective is a genre that is constantly evolving, accepting many authors into its ranks, but only a few achieve popularity and deserved reader's recognition.