Genre peculiarities of the tale «Sanatorium» by N. Aseev

The article deals with the aesthetic trend of genre deformation actualized in the literary process of the transition time. The realistic tale «Sanatorium» written at the end of the 1920s by Nikolai Aseev demonstrates the disintegration of the inner form. The complex genre model pushes the boundaries of the traditional world image and gives an opportunity to represent the “coming” reality in multidimensional reflection.