An experiment on hearts and minds: how to enjoy an experiment in love

The article presents the experience of working on the novel Love Experiment by H. Mantel with fourth-year students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages; analyzes the features of the subject matter of the work and the specificity of the author's language, which manifests itself in the brevity and capacity of each phrase, due to the concentration of meaning in one or two words; describes the ways of interpreting the author's ideological principles and cultural characteristics of the historical period.