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The article is devoted to the problem of sensory perception as a fundamental value of an artistic text. The complex structure of the presented world and artistic language oriented to mythological thinking create an open space for the realization of the universal dialogue. The analysis of the Aitmatov’s and Kim’s works in this context allows to capture a significant role of senses in the process of creative encoding (author) and decoding (reader) of cultural information in a literary work.