Author: Bruce Chatwin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448105048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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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
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101522836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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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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Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Author: Peter Utz
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Shows the reader how to set up, operate, maintain and repair home and industrial video equipment. In addition, it also covers the skills necessary for writing, directing, taping and editing TV productions.
Author: Thomas John Chew Williams
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806380128
Category : Frederick County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1870
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Author: William and Mary College Quarterly Staff
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309555
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine.
Author: College of William and Mary
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Publishes refereed scholarship in history and related disciplines from initial Old World-New World contacts to the early nineteenth century and beyond. Its articles, notes and documents, and reviews range from British North America and the United States to Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Spanish American borderlands. Forums and topical issues address topics of active interest in the field.
Author: Christian Utz
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839450950
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 531
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Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become necessary for music history to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st century. Christian Utz provides the foundations of a global music historiography, building on new models such as transnationalism, entangled histories, and reflexive globalization. The relationship between music and broader changes in society forms the central focus and is treated as a pivotal music-historical dynamic.
Author: Mortimer Levering
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Category : Shropshire sheep
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
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Author: Jacob Mehrling Holdcraft
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806311150
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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