The problem of truth in the fictional works

The article is devoted to revealing of the nature of truth in the fictional works. The authors show that the truth can exist in its three general modes: as a correspondence, coherence and aletheia, and the most important one are the latest mode which concerns with the esthetical and existential measures of the literary work. According to the authors of this article, one of the peculiarities of the superior (alethetic) mode of truth in the literary work and its main difference from the logical truth is a paradoxical nature of knowledge generated by it. Due to it, the literary text leads us beyond the limit of both ordinary («idle») truths and truth of myth (i.e. doxes in Plato terms), polemical transformation of which it often turns up. This solution, however, proposes definite epistemic intention, which can’t be solved by a univocal logical judgment, but it joins as relatively true two or more mutually exclusive judgments.