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The article by Yu.I. Kovbasenko (Ukrainę, Kyiv) deals with the main aesthetic and semantic parameters of postmodemism literature, among which a great attention is paid to its hyperrecepti- veness (first of all intertextuality), palimpsestnity, ironism, orientation on the elite and mass reader simultaneously, taking into consideration „the play with the text and the reader” and also virtual historism as a local and temporal areal of many postmodernism works. The main theoretical positions and conclusions are illustrated the wide cited material from the world literature.