Travelogue in the Russian literary tradition
Travelogue in the Russian literary tradition

Summary/Abstract: The article makes an attempt at specific works of travel literature to trace the main stages of the evolution of the genre of literary travel, the peculiarities of its development, appearance and functioning, to consider the originality of the genre and its poetics. Considering the evolution of the travelogue genre, it should be noted the breadth and variety of views on the essence of the genre. In modern domestic literary criticism, we will meet a wide range of views on the essence of the genre. Numerous travel notes of the 18th, 19th centuries and the current century make it possible to raise the problem of the evolution of the genre as a problem of its continued development. Pointing to the origin of this genre in Western Europe, we will try to assess its role in the history of Russian literature, as well as analyze the existence of travelogue in the Russian literary tradition: sources, genre genetics, main development vectors, texts using the formula for organizing travel prose as a compositional and meaningful invariant.

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