A.P.CHEXOV ASARIDAGI SAYOXAT OCHERK JANRINING O'ZLIKLIGI

: travelling essay, typology and the poetics of the genre, Chekhov's travelling essays

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The article examines A. P. Chekhov’s travel essays “From Siberia” and “Sakhalin island” against the broad background of eighties fiction writers, and defines their genre and poetics. Dividing the essays into “scientific” and “artistic” makes it possible to detect a clear attitude of russian travelers towards depicting their fatherland “without flattery”. Analysis of the travel essay genre, which occupied a central place in magazine fiction of the 80-90s. XIX century, made it possible to discover that the typology and poetics of the travel essay genre was shaped by magazine fiction, its fruits were also used by representatives of high literature (in particular, Chekhov). Chekhov's appeal to the siberian theme was also not accidental; it became one of the central themes in russian literature at the end of the last century, and the travel essay genre was one of the most popular in the development of this new theme.