Autobiographical character as cementing factor in the works of L. Andreev and M. De unamuno

The paper analyzes the problem of the autobiographical component in the European literature of the epoch of the end of the 19 th – beginning of the 20 th centuries by the example of comparison of creative work of Miguel de Unamuno and Leonid Andreev. The process of advancement of personal "ego" into the foreground in the art consciousness gets the hypertrophied outlines developing into domination of auto-psychological "ego".