RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism2312-92202312-9247Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2101610.22363/2312-9220-2019-24-1-65-72Research ArticleCycle “Travel from Russia” of A. Bitov as an artistic whole (structure and poetics)Elrashid AliMohammed Adam<p>PhD student, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature</p>mody.adams@mail.ruPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)15122019241657227042019Copyright © 2019, Elrashid Ali M.A.2019<p>The article attempts to consider the book by A. Bitov Travel from Russia as a fictional purpose and the journey feature as a genre of fiction. At the same time, the features of similarities and differences, the creative evolution in the writers stories, which reflect the authors reflection on the spaces of the former Soviet Empire and its social connections, are considered. Constant study of the cultures of other nations helps the writer to create an overall artistic picture. As a result, the journey becomes for A. Bitov the process of existence (ontological principle).</p>contemporary literary criticismRussian prosetravel genreGeorgiaA. Bitovсовременное литературоведениерусская прозажанр путешествияГрузияА. Битов[Cherednichenko S. Puteshestvennik po imperii. Anrey Bitov [A traveler of the empire. Andrey Bitov] // Voporosy literatury [Questions of literature]. 2012. No. 4. Pp. 10—20.][Butaeva D.Kh., Rakhmanova T.A. Psikhologo-filosofskoye vospriyaniye uvedennogo [Psychological and philosophical perception of the seen] // Vestnik “Budushcheye nauki” [Bulletin “Future of Science”]. Vol. 2. Uzbekistan, Gulistan: Gulistan State University, 2013. Pp. 10—17.][Amusin M. Neskhodstvo blizkogo. O khudozhestvennykh mirakh Yu. Trifonova i A. Bitova [Dissimilarity of a loved one. On the artistic worlds of Yu. Trifonov and A. Bitov] // Voprosy literatury [Questions of literature]. 2016. No. 12. Pp. 116—141.][Bitov A.G. Puteshestviye iz Rossii. Imperiya v chetyrekh izmereniyakh. Izmereniye III: povestiputeshestviya [Journey from Russia: the empire in four dimensions. Dimension III: story-travel. Moscow: Astrel, 2013. 505 p.][Golubkov A.S “Kniga puteshestvii Andreya Bitova” v sisteme tsennostnykh koordinat [“Andrei Bitov’s travel book” in the system of value coordinates] // Vestnik Samarskogo Universiteta. Istoriya. Pedagogika. Filosofiya [Bulletin of the University of Samara. History. Pedagogy. Philosophy]. 2017. No. 12. Pp. 42—26.][Shevchenko L.I. Fundamentalno o Bitove: retsenziya na monografiyu: T. Dudek-Listwan. Andriej Bitow — człowiek, dzieło, myśl [Fundamentally about Bitov: review of the monograph by T. DudekListvian “Andrey Bitov — Man, Labor, Thought”]. Wydawnictwo Akademii Świętokrzyskiej im Jana Kochanowskiego, Kielce, 2007. Pp. 1—7.][Ivanova N.B. Sudba i rol (Andrei Bitov). Tochka zreniya. O proze poslednikh let [Fate and role (Andrey Bitov). Point of view. On the prose of the last years]. https://lit.wikireading.ru/40634 (accessed: 20.02.2018).][Bitov. A. Kniga puteshestvii po imperii [A book of travelling around the Empire]. Moscow: Olympus Publishers; AST. 2000. 720 p.]