THE SPECIFICS OF THE FUNCTIONING OF THE CONCEPT “ROAD” IN RUSSIAN POSTMODERN LITERATURE

Abstract

The article considers the "image of the road" as a path leading to enlightenment to the final instance. Postmodernism was the first trend in the artistic culture of the 20th century to admit that the text does not reflect reality, but creates its own reality, or, more precisely, many virtual realities. Nevertheless, the "image of the road" has a path from folklore to modern writers, among them V. Sorokin and V. Pelevin take their places.The image of a path, a road is a universal of world culture. In the mythopoetic representation of space, the center and the path are its main elements.