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The textbook contains information on literary approaches to the study of the modern flow of literature "critical fiction", where, summarising the achievements of French scholars, the paradigm of the leading aspects of the creative organisation of the text is distinguished. On the basis of little-studied works by contemporary foreign writers A. Notomb, F. Begbede, M. Duras, M. Kundera, P. Susskind, J. Barnes, G. Adair, and T. Eggen, the author analyses the artistic heritage in the field of Eastern and Western cultures.

The hermeneutical principles offer a view of the contemporary historical and literary process as a manifestation of the national historical unconscious, the "discourse of the other", in the totality of the hypostases of history, language, thinking, culture, and traditions. Tracing the conflict in the selected works is analysed through the synthesis of imagination and reflection of writers, documentary analysis of phenomena and objects, where the goal of the contemporary artist is not criticism, but cognition, understanding, in which there is a change in the concept of author/reader to author/author.

The textbook is addressed to teachers and researchers of world literature, students, postgraduates, doctoral students who deal with relevant issues, and anyone interested in the current state of European literature.