Keyword: «commentary»

The article is devoted to issues of one of the topical trends in modern philology, the author considers the problem of a comprehensive analysis of the texts of fiction. The purpose of the article is to review the main interpretations of the concept of “text”, to characterize the literary text as a verbal and artisticwhole, which was created by the author, and also to consider some aspects related to teaching the course “Philological analysis”. In the article, the author formulates certain principles of philological analysis. Materials of examples from Lermontov's novel illustrate the principle of a concrete historical approach to the interpretation of a literary text.