Gandlevsky, S. (2019). Towards New Zealand: Travel essays. Moscow: AST: CORPUS. (In Russ.)

Abstract

The review considers S. Gandlevsky's travel notes in the context of the author's poems, fiction, and memoirs. The reviewers analyse the characteristic genre features of the travelogue and the principles for selection of the realia behind the ‘future reminiscence' (rather than showy ‘facades' meant for tourists, the traveller shows appreciation for something random and unobtrusive and, therefore, suffused with mystery). The review takes special interest in the constant features of the writer's poetics that reveal Gandlevsky's works as a homogeneous whole, consistent within its established framework. Such features include a particularly dense medium of quotations constituting a special kind of optics with the purpose to ensure that everything visible is fitted into a mandatory intertextual framework.