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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers
ID: #44042
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Chatwin
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To escape or to explore? The spur behind Bruce Chaturin's absurdly romantic nomadic existence has become something of a literary conundrum. Chatwin's life and art were strewn with secrets, subtle resonances and, it must be said, lies. But he was, for all that, a brilliant and unique writer. His first book, In Patagonia, published in 1977, is an awesome exercise in imagination. A travel book that reinvented travel writing, it has the ambition of a thriller, the sparkle of romantic fiction and the irrepressible insight of truly extraordinary literature. Of course, even with this book, Chatwin cloaked fact with concoction; when sketching individuals and incidents, he would adjust, if not abandon, objective reality for the sake of a better twist to an anecdote, or a clean cut to the heart of what the book somehow seemed to suggest that through travel it was possible to discover whole histories that had been lived out as if solely to excite and fascinate future explorers.
Which two options best capture the essence of Bruce Chatwin's approach to writing and his book "In Patagonia"?
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