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The article explores the metatextual structure, subject organization, and the plot in the novel of the modern Russian writer Vladislav Otroshenko called The Person beyond Authenticity. The subject of the research is the mystification of textual reality as the author’s strategy and the story line that allows the writer to pose a problem of the correlation of reality and the text in the works of art. The aesthetics of Otroshenko is found to be borderline: it combines the modernist mystification of the text as manifestation of the mystery of Being and postmodernist demystification of the text as the play of signs.