У статті досліджено поняття "жанр" як теоретичну категорію та чинник художньої специфіки творчості Михайла Козоріса. Теоретичне вивчення поняття жанру сприяє більш повному з’ясуванню жанрової природи прозової спадщини письменника (роман, повісті, оповідання, новели, етюди у прозі та ін.). Літературна спадщина митця є свідченням експериментальних можливостей як малих форм, так і повістевого й романного жанрів.
The analysis of the literary phenomena, description of certain literary direction, study of artistic acquisitions of writing, must begin from determination of them genre system. In fact exactly it enables to become acquainted with the artistic features of literature of set time, it by basic representatives. Exactly with the lineation of genre specific of creation of concrete author labour of literary critic is begun in the direction of research of poetics of works of artist. Therefore a problem of genre was and remains actual enough, because of the permanent personal interest by it by research workers. Consider research of concept "genre" important in creation of M. Kozorisa, talented writer, representative of the young generation of artists which came in Ukrainian literature in Shot up Renaissance age.
Thus, the theoretical study of concept of genre is instrumental in more complete finding out of genre nature of prosaic inheritance of M. Kozorisa (novel, stories, stories, short stories, etudes, in prose but other). Works of fiction writer must be examined after three levels: at first, through understanding there are poetics of prosaic creation as systems of world view, aesthetically literary-beautiful principles of writer; secondly, as artistic organization, complex, unity of all semantic and formal components of every prosaic work of M. Kozorisa, that simultaneously instrumental in opening of artistic idea. A literary inheritance of writer is the certificate of experimental possibilities of both small forms and story and novel genres. By submitting by itself an artistic value and completeness, every best prosaic work of artist is the constituent of h im artistic achievement as integral scale artistic map, which submits cultural diskursu of days a writer created in which.