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While in Australia, Chatwin, who had been experiencing some health problems, first read about AIDS, then known as the gay plague. It frightened him and compelled him to reconcile with his wife. [110] The fear of AIDS also drove him to finish the book that became The Songlines (1987). His friend the novelist Salman Rushdie said, "That book was an obsession too great for him.... His illness did him a favour, got him free of it. Otherwise, he would have gone on writing it for ten years." [111]

years of UTZ hazelnuts: why this is the time for cocoa companies to get on board". UTZ . Retrieved 2019-02-08. Reading recommendations from series five of Between the Covers. Escape into books with 16 winter reads To enhance the guarantee that a consumer product with an UTZ logo does indeed credibly link to an UTZ certified producer, the UTZ program contains chain of custody requirements. This is a set of chain-wide administrative, logistical and technical requirements for traceability. These requirements include criteria for separation of UTZ-certified products and conventional non-UTZ-certified products, and keeping records of direct suppliers and buyers. UTZ certified coffee, cocoa and tea is traceable through the supply chain, as UTZ uses a web-based traceability system. So the nondescript, enigmatic mister Utz is a somewhat-obsessed collector of antique porcelain, which is to say he suffers from Porzellankrankheit, and is a sort of a Bartleby the Scrivener in Communist Prague, and we and the narrator visit him and learn a bit about his whys and wherefores (such as they are, and they are indeed, as we slowly discover and come to understand, though Utz remains essentially ungraspable throughout) including his living situation:Independent, third party auditors make annual inspections to ensure coffee producers comply with the Code of Conduct. [14] Certification body [ edit ] UTZ's new code of conduct is more robust and flexible, Simpler structure will enable more farmers to join the program" (Press release). Amsterdam: UTZ Certified. 15 May 2014. In 2014 the clothing label Burberry produced a collection inspired by Chatwin's books. [205] The following year Burberry released a limited edition of Chatwin's books with specially designed covers. [206] Nearly every writer of my generation in England has wanted, at some point, to be Bruce Chatwin; wanted, like him, to talk of Fez and Firdausi, Nigeria and Nuristan, with equal authority; wanted to be talked about, as he is, with raucous envy; wanted above all to have written his books." [180]

Chatwin's sentences are as chiseled little jewels in museum cases. He's part of that wonderful tradition of chilly literary craftsmanship that counts Borges, Sebald, and Nabokov among its members. a b c d e "A NEW CODE OF CONDUCT. THAT'S BETTER". UTZ Certified. 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-09-11.UTZ is the second largest sustainability program in the world for coffee, after 4C (The Common Code for the Coffee Community). 870,102 metric tonnes of coffee was UTZ certified in 2016. [8] Cocoa [ edit ] A Swiss chocolate bar with the "UTZ Certified" label

Chatwin enrolled in October 1966 at the University of Edinburgh to study Archaeology. [51] He had regretted not attending Oxford and had been contemplating going to university for a few years. A visit in December 1965 to the Hermitage in Leningrad sparked his interest in the field of archaeology. [53] Despite winning the Wardrop Prize for the best first year's work, [54] he found the rigour of academic archaeology tiresome, and he left after two years without taking a degree. [55] The Nomadic Alternative [ edit ]

Werner Herzog, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, BBC Scotland, BBC Studios, BBC2, 2019 – Sideways Films Se Fredrik Sjöberg dice che esistono altri libri in cui compaiono collezionisti di mosche, io devo recuperare subito quei libri. Antonella Riem, La gabbia innaturale – l'opera di Bruce Chatwin (pp.175). Udine: Campanotto (Italy). 1993. Bowcott, Owen (18 October 2001). "Chatwin's ceramics mystery solved". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 10 December 2018. Ignatieff, Michael (2 March 1989). "On Bruce Chatwin". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504 . Retrieved 10 December 2018.

In un lungo ricordo, l'io narrante del romanzo, lo stesso Chatwin appunto, cerca di scoprire che fine abbia fatto la preziosa collezione dopo la morte di Utz: quella stessa collezione che l'eccentrico protagonista aveva difeso con grande forza e determinazione, dal nazismo e dalla guerra prima e dal comunismo e dal marxismo poi, che sembra ora essersi volatilizzata o addirittura, nonostante le fitte maglie della burocrazia comunista, andata distrutta. Upon his return from Patagonia, Chatwin discovered a change in leadership at The Sunday Times Magazine and his retainer was discontinued. [84] Chatwin intended his next project to be a biography of Francisco Félix de Sousa, a 19th-century slave trader born in Brazil, who became the Viceroy of Ouidah in Dahomey. Chatwin had first heard of de Sousa during a visit to Dahomey in 1972. [85] He returned to the country, by then renamed the People's Republic of Benin, in December 1976 to conduct research. [86] In January 1977, during the 1977 Benin coup d'état attempt, Chatwin was accused of being a mercenary and detained for three days. [87] Chatwin later wrote about this experience in "A Coup – A Story," which was published in Granta and included in What Am I Doing Here? (1989). [88] Michael Conroy, an independent consultant on certification for sustainable development, criticized UTZ in his 2007 book Branded!: "the environmental standards of UTZ Certified are far weaker than those of either Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance". [21] UTZ's standards, for example, explicitly announces that genetically modified coffee plants, though not at present available, would be allowable so long as farmers obey local regulations on their use. Any kind of chemical fertilizer may be used as long as an external, technically qualified advisor has determined the quantity of fertilizer to be used. No chemical pesticides or fungicides banned in the European Union, the U.S., or Japan may be used, but any that are acceptable in those three markets are acceptable on coffee farms if they are applied "according to the label". [22] In September 2019 the documentary film Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, by Werner Herzog, was broadcast by the BBC. [207] Works [ edit ]

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Chatwin returned to the subject of art and objects during his career. In his early writing for the Sunday Times Magazine, he wrote about art and artists, and many of these articles were included in What Am I Doing Here. [170] The main focus of Utz is on the impact the possession of art (in this case porcelain figures) has on a collector. [171] Utz's unwillingness to give up his porcelain collection kept him in Czechoslovakia even though he had the opportunity to live in the West. [128] Chatwin constantly struggled with the conflicting desires to own beautiful items and to live in a space free of unnecessary objects. [172] His distaste for the art world resulted from his days at Sotheby's; some of his final writing focused on this. [173] The topic appears in the final section of What Am I Doing Here, "Tales from the Art World," which consists of four short stories. At the end of What Am I Doing Here, Chatwin shares an anecdote of advice he received from Noël Coward: "Never let anything artistic stand in your way." Chatwin stated, "I've always acted on that advice." [174] Influence [ edit ] The Songlines features a narrator named Bruce whose biography is almost identical to Chatwin's. [112] The narrator spends time in Australia trying to learn about Aboriginal culture, specifically the songlines. As the book goes on, it becomes a reflection on what Chatwin stated was "for me, the question of questions: the nature of human restlessness." [113] Chatwin also hinted at his preoccupation over his own mortality in the text: "I had a presentiment that the 'travelling' phase of my life might be passing.... I should set down on paper a resume of the ideas, quotations, and encounters that amused me and obsessed me." [113] Following this statement in The Songlines Chatwin included extensive excerpts from his moleskine notebooks. [114] Chatwin died at a hospital in Nice on 18 January 1989. [133] A memorial service was held at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Sophia in West London on 14 February 1989, Salman Rushdie, a close friend of Chatwin's, attended the service. [134] Paul Theroux, who also attended the service, later commented on it and Chatwin in a piece for Granta. [135] The novelist Martin Amis described the memorial service in the essay "Salman Rushdie", included in his anthology Visiting Mrs Nabokov. [136]