Travel literature#Fiction

The travel novel is part of the travel literature that the fabric of of trips reported in their entirety. The travel novel is more strongly influenced by artistic as objectively as opposed to the trip report. The relevant characteristic that also serves to separate from other forms, is the fictional overmolding as travel experiences. Important components of the journey novel are the departure, arrival, stay in a foreign country and return home.

The travel novel can be distinguished from neighboring forms of content, such as the political novel, the adventure novel, the picaresque novel, or the novel lies. As a precursor and early form, which was already known in antiquity, the Periegese applies.

A special case of the journey novel is the movie " road movie" comparable. The text in this case describes a journey without a real goal or arrival, typical protagonists are outsiders and dropouts.

Examples of travel novels: