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The article considers Mikhail Prishvin’s diary book “The Eyes of the Earth” as a late modern text. The late modern culture was created by biographical participants of the Silver Age in the post-war years, inheriting the historical and spiritual experience of the first half of the 20th century. It preserves and develops the most significant themes of the Silver Age: art as communication and the path to God-manhood, creativity as theurgy, and the transfiguration of man and nature. In terms of poetology, it continues to explore the architectonics of the creative act. On the other hand, in contrast to the Silver Age, it forms the principle of truth, belief in the ethical basis of art, and attraction to Christian religiosity. The article describes the culture of late modernity as a figurative and semantic unity. “The Eyes of the Earth” by Mikhail Prishvin acts as a text that retrospectively allows integrating this unity in aspects of its problematic and figurative-thematic interrelations. The diary form of this text, the predominance of reasoning and thoughts in it correspond to the laws of the development of Russian literature, in which, since the middle of the 19^th century, there has been an increasing convergence of fiction and non-fiction.