Функции литературы в контексте эпохи (Мадам де Сталь)

The article explores the importance and functions of fiction, identified by theFrench writer Germaine de Staёl at the turn of the 19th century: the importance ofthe interaction between philosophy and literature, the possibility of the moralimprovement of a person through art, the specifics of the development of thenovelistic genre, and strengthening psychologism in the literary text. In her treatisesOn Literature considered in its relation to Social Instructions and in Essayon Fictions, Germaine de Staёl anticipated many aspects of interdisciplinary researchthat are of current relevance: the mutual influence of fiction and historicalscience, philosophy, and psychology.