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Utz av Bruce Chatwin
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Utz (urspr publ 1988; utgåvan 1989)

av Bruce Chatwin (Författare)

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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.… (mer)
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Titel:Utz
Författare:Bruce Chatwin (Författare)
Info:Penguin Books (1989), Edition: Reissue, 160 pages
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Kaspar Utz av Bruce Chatwin (1988)

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An unnamed narrator tells the story of Meissen porcelain collector/obsessive Kasper Utz. Set mostly in Prague, the narrator, who has only met Utz once, reveals his own obsession with the eccentric ‘trickster’ and his life, and on the way we learn a lot about the origins of porcelain as well as the tumultuous time in 1960s Prague.

Always with Chatwin one has to be aware that he was a mythologiser (as well as a self-mythologiser), and the complaint many have is that you can never know what element of his novels have some validity/fact/truth in them. It is not something that has ever bothered me. If I become fascinated with a subject he weaves a spell over, I go find a non-fiction book to learn. Like Tolstoy, I don’t think he himself called any of his books one thing or another, ie he never described any of them as novels per se. I’d recommend his essays (or some would say short stories).

As with his own life, when he became ill, he said that it was because he had eaten a thousand year old egg in China, when in actual fact he had HIV/AIDS. Even in pending death he wanted to embellish his life. I have never come away from any of his work without being spell bound by something he has written, and I have reread most of it several times. ( )
  Caroline_McElwee | Jul 11, 2023 |
Leggere Chatwin era molto in voga nei primi anni '90, quelli immediatamente successivi alla sua scomparsa. Benché fossi nei miei anni più formativi quanto a letture (e benché qualcuno mi avesse regalato una maglietta con la scritta "what am I doing here"), ho sempre snobbato Chatwin archiviandolo nella categoria della letteratura di viaggio. A lui arrivo oggi grazie a Fredrik Sjöberg che in L'arte di collezionare mosche cita Utz per via dell'enfasi sul collezionismo e di una battuta su un menu di ristorante in cui l'inglese "carp" è reso come "crap", con tutte le conseguenze del caso. Arrivo quindi a questo libro sull'onda di una connessione letteraria (quale miglior modo?) senza aspettative precise e vi trovo un grandissimo piacere di lettura (che fa rimpiangere la brevità del libro), una struttura a incastri/digressioni perfetta e una scrittura pregevole. Leggendolo, penso a quanto la storia potrebbe prestarsi a un film; in seguito scopro che il film c'è già, del 1992 (lo cercherò). Scopro anche che questo è l'ultimo libro di Chatwin, scritto durante la malattia che lo avrebbe condotto alla morte, il che rende ancora più eccezionale e sorprendente la vitalità che emana da ogni sua pagina. ( )
  d.v. | May 16, 2023 |
It was, frankly, astonishing that Chatwin was able to achieve so much with so little. His novellas, including this and "The Viceroy of Ouidah", rival his travel writing for majesty and atmosphere. A great talent taken from us too early by far. ( )
  soylentgreen23 | Aug 3, 2022 |
In this jewel-box of a novella Bruce Chatwin eschews the artifice of his 'non fiction' writing but retains all of its finest features. The unnamed narrator shares Chatwin's authorial voice, his knowledge of art and history, and possesses the same magpie mind. Utz gives Chatwin a framework to discuss Meissen porcelain, the commedia dell'arte, the whims of Hapsburg nobles, the aims of alchemy and the history of Prague, all centred around the eponymous collector Baron Utz. As usual, Chatwin's prose is like Champagne: sparkling, acid and more than a little compulsive. Highly recommended. ( )
  Lirmac | Jan 3, 2020 |
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Bruce Chatwin's new novel, ''Utz,'' begins with a funeral in one of Prague's old Baroque churches. Readers of other Chatwin works will understand what I mean when I say that it is a scene only this author could create, alive with shrewd observation, pathos and absurdist humor. Its sense of place is dead-on and its component prose lapidary. It introduces us to the world of the decedent, one Kaspar Joachim Utz.
tillagd av John_Vaughan | ändraNY Times, Robert Stone (Jul 12, 1989)
 

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An hour before dawn on March 7th 1974, Kaspar Joachim Utz died of a second and long-expected stroke, in his apartment at No. 5 Siroká Street, overlooking the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague.
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The Ambras Collection, with its Cellini salt-cellar and Montezuma's headdress of quetzal plumes, had survived intact from the 16th to the 19th centuries when imperial officials, mindful of the revolutionary mob, removed
its more spectacular treasures to Vienna. Rudolf's treasures - his mandragoras, his basilisk, his bezoar stone, his unicorn cup, his gold-mounted coco-de-mer, his homunculus in alcohol, his nails from Noah's
Ark and the phial of dust from which God created Adam - had long ago vanished from Prague.
In any museum the object dies - of suffocation and the public gaze - whereas private ownership confers on the owner the right and the need to touch. As a young child will reach out to handle the thing it names, so the passionate collector, his eye in harmony with his hand, restores to the object the life-giving touch of its maker.
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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.

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