Authorship in the genre of small prose

The author examines the aesthetic and social role of the personality of the writer and the image of the author in the formation of a small genre, reveals the philosophical and lyrical potential of small prose, and considers the philosophical and lyrical principles to be genre-forming factors of small prose. Based on the anthropological concepts of Russian philosophers, the author sees their influence on literature through the lyricization of prose, in the revival of interest in the individual, not only as a subject of cognition with intuition, but also as a spiritual substance, a subject of creativity. Particular attention is paid to the phenomenon of cyclization and epization in modern «small» prose, the topic of preserving national spiritual traditions among its best representatives, social issues in miniature cycles.