The textbook presents the worldwide literary process of our time in the variety of author's ideological and artistic worlds. The focus is on the formation of the modern novel in the literature of England (J. Barnes, I. McEwan, M. Amis), USA (J. Bart, P. Oster, M. Cunningham), France (P. Kinyar, M. Houellebecq, F. Beigbeder), Germany and Austria (P. Suskind, C. Runsmire, E. Jelinek), Italy and Spain (W. Eco, A. Baricco, A.P. Reverto), Latin America (G. Marquez, V. Llosa) and other countries (J. Saramago, O. Pamuk, X. Murakami). For students, graduate students and teachers of philological faculties of universities.