Word on the way: Peter Vile

Peter Vail (1949-2009) – a famous writer, journalist, literary critic, as well as a tireless traveler. His books “Genius of Place”, “Map of the Motherland”, “Poems about me” (like co-authorship with A. Genis “60s: the world of Soviet man”, “American”, “Russian cuisine in exile”, “native speech”, etc.) withstood not one circulation and continued to be reprinted, but the “genius of the place” became the basis of a multi-part telephod.
The collection “Word on the way” included travel essays and essays, published in different years in periodicals, as well as fragments from interviews, also dedicated to the topic of travel. This book can be read in different ways: both as a guide, and as a collection of art history and literary essays, and as an autobiographical prose. The collection also includes three chapters from the unfinished book “The Pictures of Italy”, the heroes of which were the artists of Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro and Ambrodzho Lorenzetti.

Author
Vile Peter Lvovich
Publisher
Corpus, 2014
Series
Travel