Do You like book Bruce Chatwin (2001)?
Nicholas Shakespeare's biography of Bruce Chatwin, praised as "one of the most beautifully written, painstakingly researched and cleverly constructed biographies written this decade". I agree about the pain.It is incredibly detailed. Too detailed, if you ask me. But that's not why I stopped reading it half way through. Shakespeare, purely by describing, makes me hate Bruce Chatwin. He portrays Chatwin as a man who pretended to be something he wasn't, who lost himself in a made-up reality. He had the ability to draw people into this reality, to fascinate them, but it seems as if it was all a great lie, as if had they seen him for what he was, they wouldn't have been fascinated. I don't know anything about Chatwin, except his books and his photographies. He could very well have been the man Shakespeare describes him as, but I don't care if he was. And I don't want to know. I'd rather not know him at all. That's why I didn't finish the biography, because I feared that if I did, his books would lose their magic for me. Which, if you think about it, is a great compliment for Shakespeare'ss abilities as a biograpy writer. He made me almost hate the man he writes about, that's how much Chatwin becomes alive in this book. Maybe I'll finish it one day, but I doubt it.
—Oceana2602