The desire to be a city. Italian traveler of the Twitter era in six parts and thirty -five cities

This book can be used as a guide: D. Bavilsky described in detail the sights of thirty -five Italian cities, which he visited in the fall of 2017. However, in everything else, he seemed to specifically arrange the text in such an intentionally experimental way to sit past all genre chairs. "Desire to be a city" is a diary of a particular trip and at the same time a story about works of art that the author has not seen. Thus, the document turns into a work of art with elements of fiction, into a documentary romance and auto -played, when the famous paintings and frescoes from the history of visuality are a frame and an occasion to talk about the urgent. For example, about melancholy and a sense of failure of a modern person, about the "digital" perception of the 21st century and about the "fate of Russia". The main goal of the Bavilian is to pull the reader out of everyday life, move it using the "effect of presence" into the space of high culture, accessible, despite their ideality, to anyone, even when entire countries close their boundaries and doors of museums. Dmitry Bavilsky is a famous blogger, writer