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The article is aimed at identifying “sensory reactivity” in the poetics of Mikhail Shishkin. The object of the study were the novels “The Capture of Ishmael,” “Venus Volos,” “Letter Book,” the stories “Calligraphy Lessons,” “Nabokov’s Inkblot.” The “building material” of the writer’s images are individual sensory perceived attributes — lines, colors (color painting), sounds, tactile and tactile details. The text is made up of multi-colored threads (not only visual, but also acoustic, “taste,” etc.), so that not “characters” interact on the surface of the narrative, but words, colors and sounds, from which gradually — like figures on canvases Impressionists — “images of consciousness” grow and “reliefs of the soul” appear. The most important attribute of Shishkin’s individual style, the sense-modulating component of his prose, are the intensively used details of the character’s sensory reactions. At the same time, visual sensory resources closely interact with acoustic and tactile ones, giving rise to synesthetic sensations (sound coloring or interference of the visible and tactile aspects of perception).