ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF DEFINITION OF NONFICTION LITERATURE

Abstract

At the modern stage of the development of native study of literature the necessity of new interpretations of the brightest phenomena of the American literature of the XXth century. The presence of the intentions of genre experiments and innovations in the American literature of the second half of the XXth century met the need of that time. The originality of «In Cold Blood» is possible due to the combination of various views, of factual documentary material and its literary journalistic and psychological interpretation. The article deals with the attempts of defining nonfiction literature by the American scientists. During our research it was found out that one can see two stable tendencies in the American literature of the second half of the XXth century. On one hand, literature resembles journalism, factual reality, on the other hand, journalism borrowed different techniques from fiction. That’s why studying T. Capote’s creative work is very important. He has made an original genre experiment – a nonfiction novel «In Cold Blood». The research of nonfiction novel «In Cold Blood» showed that T. Capote didn’t defraud us, he really wrote an unprecedented work in all senses, especially, genre. In crucial period of social development the actualization of this genre demanded the author’s great dedication and outstanding talent as comprehended material generated the need in a new form. «In Cold Blood» has got the world’s recognition and has become a literary tendencies of art typical for the American literature from the early 1960s.