Abstract: The articlei s devoted to the methods used in Russian prose to convey the phenomenological world view based on the example of M. Shishkin's stories from the 'Coat with Half-Belt' series and V. Kazakevich's novel 'The Unicorn Will Come For Me'. Using sensor reactions of the main characters, the researcher proves the specific nature of phenomenological poetics based on acute perception of the surroudning world which has become the expression of ethic escapism. The researcher also describes the continuity of modern authors and classical writers such as Bunin and Nabokov whose creative works became a certain response to social cataclysms and disasters. The researcher has applied the descriptive research method as well as comparison of M. Shishkin's and V. Kazakevich's prose. This has allowed to answer the question why the XXIst century, the era of relative peace and social stability, faced interest in the phenomenological prose. For example, while Kazakevich's motif was to enrich the gloom village reality with the help of child's fantasy, Shishkin's character coping with the death of his close one became emerged in his own feelings up to erasing the borders with the surrounding world but always remaining his self. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that phenomenological prose has become a rather important part of today's prose.