Features of the Traveling Genre

The study of the genre’s features of fiction is one of the main tasks currently facing literary criticism. The subject of research in this article is the genre of travel, its features and place. The author refers to the works of native and foreign researchers, such as S. Akhmedov, B. Tomashevsky, D. Likhachev, I. Maltseva, M. Bakhtin, M. Sokolyansky, V. Guminsky, V. Mikhailov, M. Shadrina, V. Shachkova, S. Turaev, N. Fradkin, O.Popovic, K.Poluektova, С.Blenton, A.Brilli, C.Pekovich and others, which allows to fully identify the definitions of this genre. In conclusion, the author concludes that the “journey” is an independent genre of the fiction, which has its own signs and elements. A feature of this genre is the special role of the author’s image, documentary and fiction, a combination of elements of such genres epistolary, essay, diary and memoirs. In the study, this genre is divided into works based on real travels and works based on fiction.