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Bruce Chatwin

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Utz keeps a fabulous collection of Meissen porcelain crammed into a tiny two-room flat. He is the perfect source for a story about the psychology of the collector. Through the Nazis and the communists, Utz has sacrificed to hold onto his porcelains because life is what he feels in their company, not what he does to keep them. His collection disappears after his death. The ensuing search illuminates Utz in a...

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Bruce Chatwin Biographies (3)

Bruce Chatwin

5,226 words, approx. 18 pages

Chatwin was born in England into a family of " ... professional people, architects and lawyers, who did ¬ go in for trade. There were, however, scattered among my forebears and relatives, a number... Read more

(Charles) Bruce Chatwin

5,483 words, approx. 19 pages

"I have a compulsion to wander and a compulsion to return--a homing instinct like a migrating bird," Bruce Chatwin wrote in a 24 February 1969 letter to Tom Maschler, his editor at Jonathan Cape. "Tru... Read more

(Charles) Bruce Chatwin

7,814 words, approx. 27 pages

Despite the critical acclaim for his travel sketches and books, Bruce Chatwin disliked being labeled a travel writer. He conceded, however, that travel was central to his writing and that he could not... Read more

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