This article reveals the artistic techniques of the human psychological state image in the modern Arabic short stories. To this end, a number of works of modern Arab writers such as Fouad al-Tekerli "Unknown wisper", Muhsin Yusuf "Sadness" as well as Zakaria Tamer "Prison" were selected. In the process of analysis the artistic skills features of psychological analysis of human state and styles verges of these writers have been studied and the means of artistic expression in the short stories have been reviewed.

paratext, psychological realism, interior monologue, psychological portrait.

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