мировосприятие

In the article the author regards different aspects of death perception artistically reconsidered by A. I. Solzhenitsyn in the short novel «Cancer Ward»; the spiritual vector of the novel is defined.

The article considers the influence of the forms of the psychological phenomenon of perception on writers’ aesthetic systems. Visual and audio types of perception are reflected in fiction in the most consistent and systemic manner. Different authors exhibit variations in their correlation: either the visual or the acoustic type prevails.