For those who are tired of stereotypical guidebooks, the famous cartoonist and, concurrently, honorary Venetian Andrei Bilzho has compiled his guide to the most romantic city in Europe.
Most readers know Andrei Bilzho, the author of “Petrovich”, a cartoonist and “an employee of a small psychiatric hospital.” Not many people know that the bronze Petrovich stands in one of the Venetian gardens, and the restaurateur Andrei Bilzho himself has been a Venetian for some time now. Probably because the author of the book does not feel like a tourist in Venice, he did not write a tourist guide. “Venice for tourists” is an absurd city, and “an employee of a small psychiatric hospital” fixes all this absurdity without a shadow of a smile, first asking the childish question “Where does the pigeon droppings go?”, And then explaining what “an ordinary Venetian flood” is. Each chapter bears the name of some kind of “Venetian catering point”, and the author introduces us in a homely way to the place, to the kitchen and to the owner, and even attaches biglietto di visita, the restaurant’s business card. But there is no map, and this is conceptual. Bilzho addresses his book not to random and hasty tourists, but to those who come to this city to live – albeit not for long. If you want to understand Venice, in a few days you will understand its intricate, but in general – simple device and find the restaurant you like on your own.
UFO, 360 p.