Сидеть и смотреть: Серия наблюдений

"Sidetʹ i smotretʹ" - ne roman, ne povestʹ, ne sbornik rasskazov ili ėsse. Avtor opredelil zhanr knigi kak "serii͡a nabli͡udeniĭ". Tekst voznik iz ėksperimenta: chto poluchitsi͡a, esli sidetʹ v li͡udnom meste, vnimatelʹno nabli͡udatʹ za tem, chto proiskhodit vokrug, i v rezhime realʹnogo vremeni opisyvatʹ nabli͡udaemoe, tykai͡a stilusom v ėkran smartfona? Poluchilsi͡a dostatochno strannyĭ tekst, pro kotoryĭ mozhno s uverennostʹi͡u skazatʹ odno: ėto neobychnyĭ i dazhe, pozhaluĭ, novatorskiĭ tip pisʹma. Ėksperiment prodolzhalsi͡a primerno god i okhvatil 14 gorodov Rossii, Evropy i Izraili͡a. Iz knigi mozhno uznatʹ koe-chto novoe ne tolʹko ob atmosfere, dukhe ėtikh gorodov, no i o samom fenomene vkli͡uchennogo nabli͡udenii͡a za realʹnostʹi͡u. V kachestve prilozhenii͡a v knigu pomeshchen tekst "146 chasov", rodstvennyĭ po metodu sozdanii͡a: avtor proekhal v poezde ot Moskvy do Vladivostoka i skrupulezno fiksiroval proiskhodi͡ashchee za oknom vagona i v samom vagone pri pomoshchi toĭ zhe tekhniki - zapiseĭ v smartfone. Tekst publikuetsi͡a v sokrashchennom variante i s sokhraneniem avtorskoĭ orfografii i punktuat͡sii.

"Sit and watch" is not a novel, not a Novella, not a collection of short stories or essays. The author defined the genre of the book as a "series of observations". The text arose out of an experiment: what happens if you sit in a public place, carefully observe what is happening around, in real-time to describe the observed, poking the stylus in the screen of the smartphone? Quite a strange text, about which we can confidently say one thing: this is an unusual and rather innovative style of writing. The experiment lasted approximately one year and involved 14 cities of Russia, Europe and Israel. From the book you can learn something new not only about the atmosphere, the spirit of these cities, but the phenomenon included the observation of reality. As Annex to the book contains the text "146 hours", related by method of creation: the author rode in a train from Moscow to Vladivostok and carefully recorded what is happening outside the window of the car and in the car with the same equipment records in the smartphone. The text is published in an abridged version and with preservation of author's spelling and punctuation.