East and West in A.A. Genis’ book “Ticket to China”

This article is devoted to the problems addressed in the book of the famous writer, essayist, literary critic, cultural critic and literary critic A.A. Genis “Ticket to China” (2001). Analyzing the distinctive features of the essay, the uniqueness of the themes and the individual characteristics of the narrator, the authors conclude that Genis does not follow the widespread idea of confrontation between the West and the East. Genis presents to the reader the idea of the East as a kind of mystery of the special proximity of Eastern culture to the natural origins of life and shows the West as the center of thought, ready to solve this mystery.