Modern philology: promising and priority areas for scientific researches. The human realm perception in Salman Rushdie’s novel “Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights”

This chapter interprets Salman Rushdie’s novel “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” and the global issues of human realm depicted in it. Magic realist novel features are studied on the level of meaning and form. Such traits of author’s individual style as the novel’s multilayer structure, intertextuality, the interaction of human (real) and jinns (fiction) worlds, real historical events and persons described, condemnation of the universal human drawbacks and sins, philosophic worldview, global issues of human existence are specified. The characters of the novel are analysed and linked to the typical representatives of the human realm. Some stylistic peculiarities of the text are emphasized and interpreted. The article addresses the author’s attitude to the characters and various processes and phenomena occurring in people’s society