EN
The decline of the art of the representation in the conception proposed in the article means first of all the change of the function and position of the mimesis in relation to aesthetic experience. If previously aesthetic experience was subordinated to representation, at present the representation has been subordinated to aesthetic experience. The decline of the of the art of representation suggests that the source of the literature perceived first of all as the form of the cognitive consciousness runs short. A rediscovery of art of revealing and participation – inseparable, however, from the art of the literary representation and mimetic mapping of the reality – today takes over the dominant part of the Polish literature of the high level, giving new functions to the representation.