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Трансформация романа воспитания под влиянием идей дзэн буддизма в романах Керуака “В дороге” и “Бродяги Дхармы”
The article is dedicated to analysis of two significatn novels created by the USA writer J. Kerouac, “On the Road” (created in 1951, published in 1957) and “The Dharma Bums” (written in late 1957 – early 1958), as two examples of the growing-up novel whose generic features resonate with the basic postulations of Zen Buddhism as popularised by the Western enthusiasts in the mid-20th century. Analysing the texts of the aforesaid writings through theh prism of Zen Buddhist principles, the researchers outline the following specific features of the life view manifestated by J. Kerouac as the bright representative of the Beat generation: the idea of disengagement from attachments, the idea of spontaneity, the position of an observer, the dichotomy of madness of widsom, and the ecstatic perception of the being moment. These elements of the Beat and Zen culture integrate themselves into the genre paradigm of the growing-up novel, specifically, the “becoming” novel where the internal changes of heroes are preconditioned by the transformation of the surrounding reality, acquiring the plot-generation meaning. The characters’ aspiration to advance on the path to knowledge becomes the narrative impetus. The novelty of the approach to researching Kerouac’s fictional writings as applied in this article emerges due to the combination of two paradigms (Zen Buddhism and the growing-up novel) to analyse fictional texts in order to identify the generic features thereof. The article concludes that Kerouac as being greatly influenced by the ideas derived from Zen Buddhism significantly rethought and included those to the proprietary view of life. In such a manner, the generic features of the writings such as “On the Road” and “The Dharma Bums” typical for the growing-up novel assimilate the new features.