The book of the famous Soviet literary critic Lydia Ginzburg is devoted to the problem of depicting a person in fiction This is a theoretical work in which a large and diverse historical and literary material from the 18th to the 20th centuries is comprehended. At the same time, the comprehension of a person in artistic creativity can be traced in connection with his comprehension in reality itself. The author analyzes the construction of the character of the literary hero, the mechanisms of his behavior, which reflect the writer's idea of ​ ​ social and moral values. A large place is occupied by the study of artistic dialogue. Like L. Ginzburg's work "On Psychological Prose," which aroused great reader interest, the book "On the Literary Hero" opens up new perspectives in the approach to the analysis of literary phenomena and deepens their understanding.