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Nowadays literary criticism on the Internet is actively developing, becoming an area of influence on the worldview of the modern reader. The article provides a comparative analysis of literary and critical publications on the Internet and in literary and art journals on poetic texts in the period from 2020 to 2023.

Negative transformations associated with the culture of reading in the 21st century are generally recognized. First of all, and not without reason, the reader of fi ction comes into the fi eld of vision of philologists and teachers. The goal of the article is to analyze the modern range of meanings of the concept “reader” against the backdrop of the established reader’s image in the collective (proverbial) folk memory. The author is interested in the problem of institutionalization of the Russian reader.

The article characterizes a modern reader of a news website which allows anyone to leave comments or post their own text.

The article is dedicated to the analysis of Vladimir Sorokin’s works of fiction created at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries. The key philological emphasis of the paper is the category of intratextual author and interactive potential of the works of literature created by this contradictory modern writer. The issues of the coexistence of different reader generations in the 1990s and the changes in the literary process of the specified period are given special attention to.