On the symbolic load of the road image in the road genre

The article considers the basic requirements of genre road literature genre and traces of their use in the novels of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", Sergei Zhadan "Vorochilovgrad" and Maria Amparo Escandon “González and Daughter Trucking Co. A Road Novel with Literary License”. The object is to study the use of the concept of the road in three different novels, which, however, have a large number of allusions to each other. The aim of the article is to show the connection of these three novels and analyze how they make sense of the image of the road. We used historical and cultural, descriptive methods and comparative. The article is of interest to students of philological and cultural departments because it traces the development of the road image and document all the roll between the three novels.