ANATOMY OF RESTLESSNESS: SELECTED WRITINGS 1969-1989
Book ID/图书代码： 00200008B29972
English Summary/英文概要： Although he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that reached beyond the travel narrative to span a world of topics—from art and antiques to archaeology and architecture. This spirited collection of previously neglected or unpublished essays, articles, short stories, travel sketches, and criticism represents every aspect and period of Chatwin’s career as it reveals an abiding theme in his work: his fascination with, and hunger for, the peripatetic existence. While Chatwin’s poignant search for a suitable place to “hang his hat,” his compelling arguments for the nomadic “alternative,” his revealing fictional accounts of exile and the exotic, and his wickedly en pointe social history of Capri prove him to be an excellent observer of social and cultural mores, Chatwin’s own restlessness, his yearning to be on the move, glimmers beneath every surface of this dazzling body of work.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 虽然他的报告文学响誉世界每个角落，布鲁斯•查特文所具有的文学触感却一直延伸至横跨世界主题的旅行记叙文之外，从艺术品和古董世界到考古学和建筑学。 这部早先可能被忽略或未出版的杂文、文章、短篇小说、旅行速记和评论的精彩汇集，代表了查特文的事业在处于不同阶段的每个方面，揭示了他作品中的一个永恒的主题：他对浪迹生活的迷恋对和向往。 当查特文为自己苦于寻找一个适当的容身之地时，他也为自己的游牧“选择”了坚实的缘由，他笔下那些虚构的充满着异国情调的故事和自我放逐的人物，和他笔下的关于（意大利南方岛屿）卡普里那些异乎寻常的社会历史的描述，证明了他是一位社会和文化的一名优秀观察者，查特文自身的不安定订，他对游走天下的渴望，都在这部精彩的作品之下闪现。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：From Publishers Weekly
Chatwin (In Patagonia), who died in 1989 at 49, was a brilliant writer of travel-related essays and fiction. This aptly titled posthumous volume brings together nearly all that remains of his uncollected writings. Even the book reviews fit Chatwin’s passion for renunciation of anything tying one to a fixed abode. The collection scrapes the bottom of the barrel, for included is a long letter to his London publisher projecting a book on the nomadic life he would never complete. However, two essays intended for it follow, and they make the reader regret the decision to abandon the book. Two autobiographical pieces set his life in context, describing his beginnings as a writer and the background of his rejection of "things." Of the four short pieces characterized as fiction, at least two are also closely autobiographical. Chatwin quotes Robert Burton (The Anatomy of Melancholy) as claiming that everything we experience in nature teaches us "that we should ever be in motion." Whatever hampers mobility, Chatwin contends?and urban civilization is the chief obstacle?diminishes independence by attaching us to emotional and economic "anchors." These disparate pieces hang together thematically but will be attractive largely to Chatwin’s legion of loyalists who want to learn more about him.
About the Author/作者介绍： 布鲁斯•查特文（Bruce Chatwin），一个传奇式的人物。他1940年出生于英国谢菲尔德，曾是苏富比最年轻的董事之一，后来辞去工作开始旅行。1972年，任职于《星期日泰晤士报》（The Sunday Times），三年后又突然离职，远走世界的尽头——巴塔哥尼亚。这趟长达六个月的自我放逐之旅，让查特文完成了他的第一部作品——《巴塔哥尼亚高原上》。该书出版至今受到无数读者喜爱，其独特的写作风格，更获得英国“豪森登奖”（Hawtklornden Prize）及美国“福斯特奖”等文学大奖的肯定。查特文于1989年1月去世，短短十余年间，他陆续完成的作品包括小说、散文、旅行文学及摄影集等，其中较著名的包括：曾进入1988年“布克奖”决选名单的《乌兹》（Utz），以及《歌之版图》（The Songlines）等。
Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) was the author of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz. His other books are What Am I Doing Here and Anatomy of Restlessness, posthumous anthologies of shorter works, and Far Journeys, a collection of his photographs that also includes selections from his travel notebooks.
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