perception

The article deals with the study of aesthetic reflection in K. Paustovsky’s works about nature. The aim of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the writer’s aesthetics of nature on the basis of two methodological approaches: the philosophical theory of aesthetic perception of nature by man and sensory poetics. The main section of the article consists of two parts. The first part talks about K. Paustovsky’s double aesthetic reflection on the basis of perception and aesthetic interpretation of landscapes in the works of Russian writers, composers and artists.

The article discusses the literary fate of M. A. Tarlovsky, his place in the Russian poetry, as well as some peculiarities of his perception of the characters of the comedy «Auditor».

The article studies how the artistic works of A. G. Bitov are perceived by the Russian and German criticism. The approaches of postmodern and postcolonial theories to the awareness of the author’s contribution in the development of the Russian literature are considered on the material of the works representing the ‘Caucasus text’. The history of A. G. Bitov’s texts being translated into German is addressed.

The subject of this article is the analysis of the complexity of literary texts perception in the beginning of the XX-th century, the epoch of change of a cultural paradigm. The author considers such new lines of literary process as «the fashionable writer», change of a publishing policy and type of reader’s perception.