Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of a new type of hero in modern Russian literature on the example of the analysis of the main character of the story Z. Prilepina “Lion Amen” («Шер аминь»). A number of names defines the development of modern Russian literature, among which are representatives of the “new realism”, who have identified themselves in a manifestation way. However, the very term “new realists” is conditional, because, as is known, at the beginning of the XX century, the existence of “new realism” already announced. Thus, in the story we are acquainted with a new hero of modern Russian literature, whose development takes place in the direction of saturation of his figurative characteristics with the features of the author's personality. The similarity between the writer and the hero shown, first, in the fact that they live the same life only in different ways.