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>XXth century, reasonably called the "era of suspicion" (about hermeneutics' reveal see p. 132-133), was also marked by the emergence of concepts that reject the personal primordium from the threshold. They can be called anti-personalistic. Similar views let (and still do) know about themselves not only in philosophy but also in the sphere of art. According to I.P. Smirnov, modern literature in its postmodern branch tends to portray human reality as monstrous; authors "conceptualise the subject as an uncontrolled 'machine of desires' <...> as a mechanical-organic monster"3
