Safiyuk O. National image of the world and conception of personality in Western European novel in the end of the XIXth - the beginning of the XXth century and in short stories by V. Pidmohylnyi.

Subject - short stories by Guy de Maupassant, J. Joyce and V. Pidmohylnyi. Aim - comprehension of national image of the world and artistic conception of personality specific for Guy de Maupassant, J. Joyce and V. Pidmohylnyi. Methods - genetic, contactological, typology approach, biographic, hermeneutic. It is accented on predominating role of time and space organization which coordinates national image of the world in short stories by Guy de Maupassant, J. Joyce and V. Pidmohylnyi. Individual manner of these writers is revealed due to coloristics. Artists observe the world through the prism of different colors that comprises tessellated integrity of their national image of the world. Common and different features of artistic conception of personality in short stories by Guy de Maupassant, J. Joyce and V. Pidmohylnyi are revealed. Sphere - educational process.