THE PECULIARITIES OF M. SHISHKIN’S ARTISTIC METHOD (LARIONOV’S NOTES CASE STUDY)

The article is devoted to the issue of the artistic method of the famous Russian writer M. Shishkin. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the syncreticism of the author’s methodological attitudes on the basis of the novel “Larionov’s Notes”. The authors are focusing their attention on the following text components of this work: means and techniques of mapping the reality, specifics of psychologism, chronotope, peculiarities of narrative organization, genre features ? and arrive at conclusion about the entwinement of aesthetic elements related to realism, modernism and postmodernism, which is due to both common trend of modern literature process in general and author’s signature artistic intentions.