Going Where

Five tales, each of which stages an encounter between an acute sensibility and a city. Russian-born Olga Medvedkova reveals something of what may motivate travel -curiosity, infatuation, uxorial affection, search for academic knowledge, acquisitiveness - and what may lie behind that word, in its forms both loved and loathed: tourism. Writing in French rendered into English by renowned translator Richard Pevear, Olga Medvedkova lends her art-historian's eye to the particularity of place, intimati...