27 мая 2026 г.
By Josh Billings, Los Angeles Review of Books
“A masterpiece . . . what makes the experience of
reading Evocations of Italy so dazzling is the e9ortlessness with
which Muratov navigates … historical strata, moving from one
high point to the next with a touch so light and sure that it
makes even his most o9handed comparisons feel inevitable.”
Evocations, in Russia, has reached the kind of classic status
that even the most beloved books on travel, or art, rarely
achieve. For Muratov, the task of the critic, rather than just to list
o9 details, is to use those details to evoke something that is
essentially beyond them: the timelessness and transcendence
that we experience in great art, which is why it continues to
matter to us . . . This is Italy the haven, Italy the single still point
in a tumbling world. It’s the kind of refuge that tourists of every
age dream of finding.”
—Josh Billings, Los Angeles Review of Books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/evocations-italy-pavel-muratov-russian-travel-modernism-art/