Eastern Slavic Literature
This article, using the example of Dmitry Bavilsky’s book Museum of Water. The Venetian Diary of the Twitter Era, examines the correlation between collective and autobiographical memory. In the process of text generation, the author of the travelogue not only joins the collective memory captured in the symbolic space of the city, but also forms an autobiographical memory that corresponds to the writer’s axiological intentions. Based on the theory of “places of memory”, the methodology of narrative analysis, as well as the constants of the Venetian supertext, the author of the article demonstrates how the symbolic space of the city determines the narrative structure of the text, how collective representations of the city determine the forms of recording, storage, reproduction and textual embodiment of travel information, how Bavilsky’s travel diary grows into an experiment with time and with autobiographical memory.