The article is dedicated to phenomenon of literatures dispute with idea about itself, insisted upon by modern theory of aesthetics and ideology of reading. The subject under review is a specific form of such dispute: the one that has been expressed in the form of narration about the reading individual. The hero of such narration is often described as a carrier of mind which reproduces cultural mythology of reading and literature, contemporary to him. He is also a bearer of the event which shapes the main plot of a writing. Address to such kind of heroes creates an autoreflective directionality for literature: building a plot around readers figure, literature exposes situation of reading (and, wider, the problem of functioning of literature-artistic and literature-critical product in the history of the reader) to metaliterature examination. Such kind of autoreflective tendencycan be found in a row of literature implementation. The earliest example of this is obviously M. Servantes novel, whose heros story lines up polemic with traditionalist cult of sacral mimetic reading. In romantic prose of this kind autoreflective tendency discovers itself in narrative polemics with contemporary myth about literature as the highest dimension in a human life. In works of Stendhal, Merimee and Flaubert in dispute with cultural myth of literatures reference and cognitive virtue of reading, myth, created within aesthetics of realism. The subject of this article is specifics of artistic reflection in regard to contemporary philosophical and aesthetical concept of literature, formulated in narrations about readers of modernism and postmodernism. In literature of modernism in stories about readers we can find polemics with modernistic cult of literature as a form of magic (J.-P. Sartre) transformation of life. It is being examined on material of Canettis Blinding and G. Ayzenrayhs Dostoevsky-like adventure. In attempt to substitute reallife context with library cult (in the former) and with event, designed according to the literature pattern (in the latter), main characters of the writings fail. In postmodernism literature about the reader we can discover polemics with postmodernistic idea of literatures loss of its own functionality. Literatures reaction to such thesis is being investigated basing on A. Byatts novel Possession and the writing of Latin-American author C.-M. Dominguez The House of paper.

Рассматривается явление полемики литературы с тем представлением о ней, на котором настаивает современная ей эстетическая теория. Предметом рассмотрения является особая форма такой полемики: та, которая нашла свое выражение в форме повествования о читающем человеке. Дискурс о читателе при этом трактуется как форма авторефлексивной тенденции в литературе. Статья выполнена на материале литературы зарубежного модернизма и постмодернизма