V knige razvertyvaetsya kartina stilevykh iskaniy russkoy prozy 1990-2000-kh godov. Na primere povestey i rasskazov V. Makanina, L. Petrushevskoy i V. Pelevina procherchivayutsya osnovnye silovye linii, tendentsii i perspektivy dvizheniya sovremennykh khudozhestvennykh form. V sfere vnimaniya issledovatelya okazyvayutsya formotvorcheskie protsessy, proiskhodyashchie na urovne rechevykh modeley, form izobrazheniya cheloveka, v prostranstvenno-vremennykh i syuzhetnykh obrazovaniyakh i zhanrovykh konstruktsiyakh. Kniga adresovana spetsialistam po istorii literatury, bakalavram i magistrantam, vuzovskim i shkol"nym prepodavatelyam, a takzhe vsem interesuyushchimsya sovremennym sostoyaniem russkoy slovesnosti.