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The creative heritage of Vasyl Stefanyk is of great cognitive, ideological, aesthetic, historical, and literary significance. He was an innovator in literature, the creator and unsurpassed master of a very concise, dramatic in content and deeply lyrical in sound of the socio-psychological novel.

Stefanyk was the founder of expressionism in Ukrainian literature, a style that implies depicting the inner through the outer, and an interest in deep psychological processes. Drawing his thematic material from the village he knew well, Stefanyk did not see the essence of his work in describing peasant life or raising social issues. For him, the main thing in showing the "peasant's despair" was not domestic or political, but universal aspects of human life.

«The Road» — is the third collection of short stories by V. Stefanyk, published in February 1901 and constituting a new step in the development of his leading ideological and artistic principles. The collection is dominated by short stories without a plot, lyrical and emotional plan («Antiquity», «Whistlers», «May», "Dream", "Winter", "Thief", "Arsonist", "Maple Leaves", "Funeral").