Импрессионистическое художественное сознание в русской и западноевропейской прозе начала XX века

At the beginning of the 20th century the renovation of the artistic mentality became very intensive in various spheres. For the Russian prose of the silver century the processes of synthesis were characteristic. The impressionistic artistic thinking was one of the dominants in this synthesis. In this article the impressionism is understood as a type of artistic mentality, not only as an influential current of the 19th-century French painting. The impressionistic poetics is being demonstrated on the works of Russian writers, such as I. Bunin, B. Zaytsev, S. Sergeev-Tsensky, and those of Western Europe, such as the brothers Goncourt, M. Proust and K. Hamsun.