The chosen strategy of the research allows us to educe the modes of the author's self-reﬂection through images-masks, narration, mystiﬁ cation of the world literature texts, the characters-storytellers themselves and the system of comments. The variants of rendition of the famous text are understood as manners of external making, examination of the author's self-awareness, an attempt of approximation to the truth. The narrative basis of the novel includes the search and interpretation of mystiﬁed and confabulated “The Metamorphoses” by Ovid and is represented as the Book of Genesis. And if it is possible, which artistic devices are used? Emphasis in the research is put on the analysis of the novel by Austrian author, Christoph Ransmayr “The Last World”, which is recognized the best among European prose works of the end of the 1980s. The most important issue of the research is whether it is possible to embody the image of the ideal, remaining within the ludic aesthetics of the postmodernism. It is proved that aforementioned writings mark overcoming the deadlock of deconstruction, the beginning of the absolute spirit search into the world-chaos. The article suggests the new treatment of contemporary European literature landmark texts, which are traditionally assigned to the aesthetics of postmodernism: Ch.

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