This thesis offers a system analysis to the aesthetic model of M. Kotsyubynskyi's "school". On the ground of the vast text material and theoretical works about nature and origin of the literary "schools", this paper for first time outlined the vision statement of this phenomenon; highlighted the distinguished features of postimpressionism as a stylistic movement in art and literature; it traced the traditions of M. Kotsyubynskyi's "school" in the Ukrainian postimpressionism; it explored the aesthetic nature, genre and stylistic modifications of the short stories of M. Kotsyubynskyi's "school" representatives at the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX century; it identified the range of problems, ideological and topic features, and ways of their realization in fiction works of the author of "Intermezzo" and his followers; it gave the characteristic of the image structure and showed the way of its representation in the prose of M. Kotsyubynskyi, Gritsko Grigorenko, M. Zhuk, V. Leontovich, M. Mohylianskyi, M. Cherniavskyi, particularly the images of the national intelectuals, "new" woman, the image of the "lost" childhood and the image of the culturally distinct strategies. The paper also discussed the peculiarities of depicting the concepts of fear and revolt in the short stories of the literary classic and the expressers of his aesthetic principles in the Ukrainian postimpressionism in the 20-30's of the XX century; it defined the modus of loneliness as a subject of the fiction reflection in the artistic works of the author of "The shadows of the forgotten ancestors" and A. Golovko, M. Ivchenko, G. Kosynka, G. Myhailychenko, V. Pidmohylnyi, M. Khvylovyi; it uncovered the modernist discourse of love and death in M. Kotsyubynskyi's oeuvre and the creative work of the representatives of his school; it analyzed the narrative structure in the novelistics of O. Gonchar, Y. Hutsalo, V. Drozd, R. Ivanychuk, Gr. Tyutyunnyk, Val. Shevchuk as the successors of the artistic conceptions of the author of "Apple-tree blossom".
