What Am I Doing Here (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Bruce Chatwin
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Essays
- Time of Work: The 1970’s and 1980’s
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: 1970’s, Intellectuals, Future, Abandoned children, 1980’s, Liberalism, Diseases, China or Chinese people, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Vietnam
A collection of thirty five pieces on diverse, often out- of-the-way, topics from all over the world
When Bruce Chatwin died in 1989 of a rare disease contracted in China, his reputation as a travel writer and journalist was at its height. The essays in What Am I Doing Here vary greatly in length (some are substantial magazine pieces, while the sketch of Diana Vreeland is a mere impression of less than a page) and in subject matter. The longer contributions tend to be the most interesting, as in the pieces on Andre Malraux, George Costakis, Ernst Jitnger, and...
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