Anatomy of restlessness
Subtitle: selected writings, 1969-1989
By: Bruce Chatwin ; edited by Jan Borm and Matthew Graves.
Contributors: Borm, Jan.; Graves, Matthew.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780670868599; 9780614968583
Description: It is commonly supposed that Bruce Chatwin was an ingenuous latecomer to the profession of letters, a misapprehension given apparent credence by that now famous passage in his lyrical, autobiographical "I Always Wanted to Go to Patagonia," in which we are told that this indefatigable traveler's literary career began in midstride, almost on a whim, with a telegram announcing his departure for the farthest-flung corner of the globe: "Have gone to Patagonia.".

Such a view overlooks the fact that from the late 1960s onward Chatwin was already fashioning the tools of his future trade in the columns of a variety of magazines and journals. And that he continued to do so through every twist and turn of his career, from art expert to archaeologist, to journalist and author, right up until his death in 1989. These previously neglected or unpublished pieces - short stories, travel sketches, essays, articles, and criticism - gathered together here for the first time, cover every period and aspect of the writer's career, and reflect the abiding themes of his work: roots and rootlessness, exile and the exotic, possession and renunciation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204).
Table of contents: title: Horreur du domicile: I always wanted to go to Patagonia; title: A place to hang your hat; title: A tower in Tuscany; title: Gone to Timbuctoo; title: Stories: Milk; title: The attractions of France; title: The estate of Maximilian Tod; title: Bedouins; title: The nomadic alternative: Letter to Tom Maschler; title: The nomadic alternative; title: It's a nomad nomad world; title: Reviews: Abel the nomad; title: The anarchists of Patagonia; title: The road to Isles; title: Variations on an idee fixe; title: Art and the image-breaker: Among the ruins; title: The morality of things.