Bruce Chatwin 1940-1989 was, for much of his short life, obsessed with the idea of nomadism, feeling that restlessness is encoded into human DNA. His first book, IN PATAGONIA, is a most unorthodox travel book a designation Chatwin disliked , a picaresque chronicle of his own wanderings through the wildest parts of South America. Chatwin writes lyrically about the landscapes, the history, and most of all the vast variety of people he meets, whom he describes in evocative, impressionistic vignettes that are not unlike short stories. Chatwin's odd, fanciful, perhaps not always literally true, but very appealing little book has become an unexpected classic of travel literature.
CHATWIN BRUCE
Nació el 13 de mayo de 1940 y murió en Niza el 18 de enero de 1989. Inteligente, encantador, escritor de prosa exquisita y magnífico narrador de historias, pensador de originalidad abrumadora, lector voraz y perspicaz, de Chatwin nos queda su legado, breve pero excepcional: además de En la Patagonia, con el que irrumpió en el panorama literario en 1977, El virrey de Ouidah, Colina negra, Los trazos de la canción, Utz y, publicado póstumamente, ¿Qué hago yo aquí?
