MODERN LITERATURE FOR THE MODERN READER

Literature has always played an important role in society. Literature has its own specific tasks and functions the most essential of which are aesthetic and informational purposes. Literature could be for society, both the best friend and the cruelest critic. But of course, literature has always been a reflection of social life and was one of the engines of the cultural process. Socio-cultural changes taking place in modern society under the influence of the processes of globalization and subcultural differentiation have entailed a change in all aspects of social life. At different stages of its development, mankind reflected on the role of literature in society. With the changes taking place in life, people also become different. The process of selfexpression captures everything, turning a person into a slave of his time. And it is literature that is the main foundation of any society, the bearer of new ideas and spiritual saturation: in works of art, the experience of the country that appears in its entirety.  Literature can have a very serious impact on its reader. Experts have already scientifically proven that fiction can significantly influence the mass consciousness, create guidelines for the development of people. And if literature really teaches the beautiful, teaches to recognize good and evil, representing the essence of thoughts and reflections of the best minds of mankind, today it seems to be one of the most effective means that can make this world a better, kinder. M. Gorky also wrote: “The purpose of literature is to help a person understand himself, boost self-esteem and self-confidence and develop in him a striving for truth, fight against vulgarity in people, be able to find good in them, arouse shame, anger, courage in their souls. , to do everything so that people become nobly strong and can spiritualize their lives with the holy spirit of beauty” (Gorky M., 1923). Modern literature is an extremely controversial phenomenon. On the one hand, literature and authors have become more liberated, no longer limited by censorship, nor by any framework or canons, as it was for many years. On the other hand, precisely due to the fact that literature is not limited by anything and no one, today on the market you can see hundreds of titles of works that not only have no artistic value, but also negatively affect modern readers, the formation of their artistic taste and for the entire literary process in general (Kazachenko, Yu.: https://rkculture.ru/rol_literaturyi_v_sovremennom_obschestve/). The modern reader has also changed. Modern schoolchildren and students for the most part do not read at all, managing to successfully and without prejudice to academic performance even skip publications, familiarization with literature which the curriculum requires. And this affects not only the general literacy of modern young people, but also their worldview, value orientations, morality.

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