The biography of the "queen of detective fiction" in the graphic novel by A. Martinetti, G. Lebo, and A. Franca "The Real Life of Agatha Christie.

The subject of the research is the genre-specific characteristics of fictionalized biography in the 21st-century graphic novel. The material of the study is the book by French authors Anna Martinelli, Guillaume Lebo, and Alexandre Franck, "Agatha: The True Life of Agatha Christie" (Agatha: La vraie vie d’Agatha Christie, 2014). This work is analyzed in terms of identifying traditional genre dominants of the biographical genre, as well as the specifics of visual literature, which includes the graphic novel. The focus on the graphic novel genre also determines the relevance of the study, which is based on considering the chosen work as an example of the specified visual literature that enjoys notable popularity today. Thus, the aim of this research is to analyze the fictionalized biography of the "queen of detective fiction" and to identify its specifics within the graphic novel genre. The research employs biographical, comparative, and intermedial methods of analysis that allow for the identification of the specifics of fictionalized biography in the graphic novel genre. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that the graphic novel by A. Martinelli, G. Lebo, and A. Franck is studied for the first time in terms of revealing genre synthesis: the biographical element is combined with the genre of detective fiction, inseparable from the image of Agatha Christie. For this reason, the French authors add a detective component to the graphic narrative. By referencing the autobiography of the English writer and creating a nonlinear narrative based on it, focused in the first part of the book on Christie's famous disappearance after her separation from her first husband, the French authors turn the heroine's life into a kind of myth, where she overcomes challenges through her creative work. The results of the research may be further utilized in studies of the image of Agatha Christie in world literature as well as in the analysis of the biographical genre in graphic narratives.