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Physical description: 154 p. ; 23 cm. Summary: Harbouring his private collection of Meissen porcelains, Kaspar Utz found a refuge from the horrors of the twentieth century. It was the colourful Harlequin, 'the Trickster', with whom nondescript Utz most identified. Chatwin explores the life of Utz and his 'blasphemous' collecting habit in this stylish fiction. Subject: Collectors and collecting - Fiction. Collectors and collecting - Czechoslovakia - Fiction. English fiction - 20th century. Czechoslovakia - Fiction. Fiction in English - 1945- - Texts. Modern fiction, FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction, text.

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"Chatwin at his most erudite and evocative."--Robert Stone, The New York Times Book Review

"Utz wonderfully depicts that sad, romantic city of Prague, the ham-handedness of East European politics, a small gallery of deftly drawn characters. Chatwin's deepening portrait of Utz is cunningly achieved. . . . It is triumphant." --The Washington Post

"Chatwin's Prague is a palpable place. . . . The modeling is deft, the color bright, and the miniature scale of the piece displays a decorative mantelpiece charm."
--The Boston Globe

"Bruce Chatwin has set a story as delicate as the skyline. . . . In this mordant and suggestive story, he masters the grace, the damp, the dilapidation and the ghostly comedy of the city that produced Kafka and The Good Solider Schweik, The Golem and Don Giovanni, and the inflamed reasonableness of spring, 1968." --Los Angeles Times
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An elegant novel set in Prague about the possibility of freedom in an unfree state, from the acclaimed author of The Songlines and In Patagonia

Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's years of Stalinism, numbers more than 1,000 pieces, all crammed into his two-room Prague flat.

Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and although he has considered defection, he always returns. He cannot take his precious collection with him, but he cannot leave it, either. And so Utz is as much owned by his porcelain as it is owned by him, as much of a prisoner of the collection as of the Communist state.

A fascinating, enigmatic man, Kaspar Utz is one of Bruce Chatwin's finest creations. And his story, as delicately cast as one of Utz's porcelain figures, is unforgettable.

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  • ÉditeurJonathan Cape Ltd
  • Date d'édition1988
  • ISBN 10 0224026089
  • ISBN 13 9780224026086
  • ReliureRelié
  • Numéro d'édition1
  • Nombre de pages154
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