Vintage Classics Utz As Seen on BBC Between the Covers

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Author: Bruce Chatwin

Auteur: Bruce Chatwin

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Bruce Chatwin

Engels
Paperback
9780099770015
03 december 1998
127 pagina's

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Bruce Chatwin

"Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2008 The Times named Chatwin number 46 on their list of ""50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.""

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Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz.

As Seen on BBC Between the Covers

This is Chatwin's unforgettable novel of a man in war-torn Communist Prague, driven to protect his collection of porcelain figurines at any cost.

Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is permitted to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he is not allowed to take his porcelain with him and so he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner both of the Communist state and of his collection.

'Chatwin at his most erudite and evocative' New York Times

'His final tour de force... a pristine miniature' Independent

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 december 1998
Aantal pagina's: 127
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Bruce Chatwin
Hoofduitgeverij: Vintage Classics

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Editie: New ed
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 12 mm
Product lengte: 200 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 15 mm
Verpakking lengte: 199 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 109 g

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A collector becomes hostage of his collection
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In 1998 Bruce Chatwin (BC) selected and edited his best journalistic work. He also lived to see the publication in 1998 of Utz, a work in progress for more than 20 years, which was short-listed for the year’s Booker Prize. He did not live to seein print his collection of short pieces called What Am I Doing Here. He died of an extremely rare bone marrow disease contracted in Western China, in January 1989.
Utz is the romanticized life history of a man named Rudolf Just and his affliction, coolecting porcelain figures. BC met Utz in Prague in 1967 and they spent altogether 9.5 hours together. The novella is an account of this meeting and BC’s subsequent investigations about what happened to him and his collection. Utz died in 1974. Much later BC re-established contact with the tiny cast of people surrounding Utz during their one encounter, and new perspectives emerge...
Kaspar Utz inherits a fortune at a young age when he is already under the spell of Meissner porcelain figures. He rapidly becomes an expert. He uses his considerable assets to acquire ever more items, but unlike the 17th century King Augustus of Sachsen, who surrounded himself with so many porcelain items that his small empire collapsed, Utz manages to keep together and even expand his collection. During WW II he moved his collection in time from Dresden to the cellars of the ancestral mansion. Later, after the communist takeover in 1948 and again in 1952 and after, he made deals with the new rulers of Czechoslovakia. BC wonders what the deals really implied... They did allow Utz to make annual trips abroad and for his collection to stay with him (albeit completely photographed and numbered by the State) until his death, in a two-room flat.
BC’s main question, what happened to the collection, is not solved in the novella, but plenty of possibilities are suggested. This meticulously researched and beautifully plotted and written novella is BC’s farewell gift to humanity.

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