Fiction (French - "graceful literature") - the general name of fiction in prose and poetry. Recently, the term "fiction" means a new meaning: "mass literature", opposing "high literature".
In Russian, the word began to be used in the 19th century, thanks to literary critics Vissarion Belinsky and Dmitry Pisarev, who used it in relation to works that did not fit into the framework of their schemes. In a broad sense, this term is contrasted with journalism (documentary genre), which is common in journals of the 19th-20th centuries. Since the word "fiction" has French roots, Russian critics often used it in a dismissive manner in relation to literature that sang bourgeois ideals and had no social connotation. In the narrow sense of the word, the term "fiction" means light reading, more inherent in genres such as detective, romance, mysticism, adventure. Reading for a pleasant pastime, relaxation. Fiction is interconnected with stereotypes, fashion, and popular themes. Characters of characters, their types, habits, professions, hobbies are correlated with the information space of most people. Fiction writers, as a rule, reflect the state of society, its mood and phenomena, and rarely project their own opinion into this space. Fiction is the narration of documentary material using artistic techniques. Over the course of a certain period of time, the same works of art can move from one cultural layer to another. For example, Walter Scott’s novels, previously considered the genre of “high literature”, gradually moved into the rank of adventurous fiction, and epics, on the contrary, became grassroots from grassroots literature. Modern fiction is a new product that has come under the direct influence of the reading public, and, in turn, acting on it. Despite the apparent simplicity and straightforwardness, this is a complex and interesting element of the literary process, in which real readers are participants.
