REALITY OF LIES AND FALSEHOOD OF REALISM

The hermeneutic potential of lies in literature is conditioned by the category of referentiality. At the moment when the dichotomy of the literary type of liars and in general the category of lies are taken into account, referentiality becomes suppositional. Cases of their unambiguous indexing in course of a negative axiology in post-Renaissance literature are less common than those that reveal complex semantics and dialectics of lies (for example, deception and self-denial, mystification, forgery, simulation, defamation, disinformation, pathological lie, half-truths, manipulation and distortion of facts, covering up of facts, etc.). Legal and social condemnation of these moral and criminal lies in the space of fiction are replaced by readers' indulgence. In the free zone of fiction lies appear as a poetic liberation of imagination, as a license to freedom to see everything and talk about everything, because of which the users of ars fallendi must admit the alluring quality of narrating lies.