Concepts as a Means of Organizing Artistic Discourse

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of modern foreign prose on the material of English writer Martin Amis’s novels. The basis of individual-author's picture representation of the world is the author's concepts system, which have common characteristics with the concepts of other authors, but differ in author's content, which makes it possible to talk about the uniqueness of the author's conceptosphere. Martin Amis in his work takes a passive creative position, striving to portray reality as it is. The author does not show ways out of the situation or options for solving problems, he takes the position of an outside observer, which is characteristic of most modern authors. The novels “Yellow Dog”, “The House of Meetings”, “The Zone of Interest” underwent the research as contain the relation concept as the main representative of individual thinking. Keywords: concept, relations, literature, novel, space category, Martin Amis