Grand Hotel "Europe". Ilya Leonard Pfeiffer

A grand named with a frank love story about an aging continent-Europe, barbaric tourism, the search for a masterpiece of Caravaggio and writing.

Having parted with his beloved woman, writer Ilya Leonard Pfeiffer comes to the legendary Grand Hotel, European. Which always gave guests the opportunity to imbue the atmosphere of the old continent. He wants to recreate a novel about lost love. But something goes wrong. The new hotel owner - an enterprising Chinese - changes “Europe” literally before our eyes.

The writer looks with disgust at the crowds of tourists around him. Callest and nearby, they wound kilometers along fashion routes for the sake of the next selfie, without understanding at all in art and history.

Pfeeffer Clio, the complete opposite of them. The art critic, who has devoted many years to the work of Caravaggio, it is smart, temperamental and desirable. More recently, they came up with a difficult “game” and set off in search of the last picture of the artist. But the relationship, alas, is over, and now thousands of kilometers share them.

Now Europe lives the past. Pfifer sarcastically notes all new changes in her, refusing to admit that he himself did not get away from its typical representatives, and with caution reflecting about the future.

for whom this book is

- for Readers of the novels, a noticeable role in which are given to thoughts about history, change of generations and values.

- for readers of the late Thomas Mann, including novels, the main characters in which are writers ("Death in Venice").

- For those who want to travel in Italy after the main character, watching how the old continent fill crowds of tourists.