A new book by the brilliant essayist and journalist Pyotr Vail appeared a year after his death and includes his essays from different years on travels around the world, culinary notes, fragments of interviews and chapters from the unfinished book “Pictures of Italy” about the great masters of Italian painting.
A new book by the brilliant essayist and journalist Pyotr Vail appeared a year after his death and includes his essays from different years on travels around the world, culinary notes, fragments of interviews and chapters from the unfinished book “Pictures of Italy” about the great masters of Italian painting. A rare erudite, sharp-sighted, inquisitive, adventurous traveler, witty and benevolent interlocutor, Weil traveled around, settled down (“domesticated”) and described many beautiful places, and as soon as you open his new book, you immediately feel an acute desire to quickly pack your suitcase and hit the road. . In fact, the direction is not even that important, because wherever you go, you will eventually meet the unknown yourself, Weill argues: “Travel is not at all a search for the unknown. Travel is a way of self-discovery. I have never been attracted to self-knowledge through asceticism or exhausting meditation. Travel is an excellent, simple, affordable, and most importantly – a fascinating way to yourself. After all, when you come to different places, you look not only at them, but also see yourself. You transfer yourself to other scenery, to a different entourage and fix it in a new way. As we were taught at school: the more points, the more accurate the graph. According to the points of your own movements, the schedule of your life will rather be built, and you, perhaps, will understand more about yourself …
Corpus, Astrel, 448 p.