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Article: Nicholas Shakespeare Bruce Chatwin.(Review)
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- March 1, 2000
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Fallen Angel
Nicholas Shakespeare Bruce Chatwin. Doubleday, 618 pages, $35
Plato believed a beautiful face reflected a beautiful soul; Shakespeare, in the opening speech of Richard III, equated physical deformity with evil. Tolstoy, thinking of his own thick lips and broad nose, wrote in Childhood that "nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance." The stunning photograph of Bruce Chatwin on the jacket of this biography suggests that Tolstoy was right. In our time, at least, physical appearance influences literary reputation.
Bruce Chatwin (1940-89) was a travel writer and novelist, a charmer and ...
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