The problems of receptive esthetics
This article is dedicated to the problem of the reception of the literary text, its laws and mechanisms. The main questions are: the analysis of the readers aesthetic reaction, text strategies that direct the reading act, the influence of the social and cultural factors on the literary text. The main postulates of the article are shown on the analysis of the Borges's short story Pierre Menard - Auther of the Quixote. The main mistake of the reception theories is that investigating the context, the ideology, the form and the content, they forget about the reception experience, the event of the text as it is. The article is based on the monumental works of the Constance reception school, which is led by W. Iser, H. Jauss.