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Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878056505
Collected interviews with the author of The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and The Spider's House
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780718196295
A linguistic professor arrives in Ain Tadouirt seeking to study the local dialects. Confident, condescending and culturally aloof, he is led that night to a quarry and left there. He begins to descend. Met with horror upon horror as his journey continues, he is stripped of dignity, humanity and worth. In this dark short story, language takes a central role as Paul Bowles vividly consigns the Professor to his fate amidst evocative smells, haunting sights and lurking sensations. Incisive and commanding, it is an exploration of the definition of identities, cultural differences and the shifting natures of cultural supremacy.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241399156
'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' Michael Hoffman. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavouring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria - uncertain of exactly where they are heading, but determined to leave the modern world behind. The results of this casually taken decision are both tragic and compelling.
Author : Jim Booth
Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0972178600
"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Author : Raj Chandarlapaty
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498502832
As we withdraw farther from American canonical literature and poetry and move closer to a re-appraisal of literature’s impact upon the arts through media, we may easily find a match for greater humanism and popular interaction in American rock culture through Paul Bowles. In this work, Bowles is re-invented within the postmodern, the postcolonial, and the renegade future underscored by liberal elites that had breathed new life into the American counterculture. Re-Creating Paul Bowles attests to the moments of relentless humanism and imaginative transformation that are most dreamlike, engaging the antagonism of psychology with imperialism at last. In his youth a classical composer and critic, Bowles deserves credit for spawning new generations of rock and pop music through his use of sound and tapping of non-Western or non-European folk music, bringing classic ethnography to the rock generation with Music of Morocco. Re-Creating Paul Bowles examines the Latin American, American, African, and Arab moments of his scholastic effort, a primary beginning for understanding modern popular music’s free transcription of tradition. Re-Creating Paul Bowles includes several examples of films that adapt the author’s personal life and times, the production of surrealist technique in film and literature, and the re-invention of classic works such as The Sheltering Sky and Collected Stories. It assumes the technique for re-production allows the elder Bowles greater freedom in crossing cultural boundaries and overruling the colonialist separateness that guarded cultural content for centuries. Bowles has always deserved re-appraisal in the American academy—and liberation from his stereotypical cult figure identity, a positive force in the ethnic comprehension of Self and society.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062119360
Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures—recurrent themes of Paul Bowles's writings—The Spider's House is dramatic, brutally honest, and shockingly relevant to today's political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Author : Virginia Spencer Carr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743273503
Paul Bowles, best known for his classic 1949 novel, The Sheltering Sky, is one of the most compelling yet elusive figures of twentieth-century American counterculture. In this definitive biography, Virginia Spencer Carr has captured Bowles in his many guises: gifted composer, expatriate novelist, and gay icon, to name only a few. Born in New York in 1910, Bowles' brilliance was evident from early childhood. His first artistic interest was music, which he studied with the composer Aaron Copland. Bowles wrote scores for films and countless plays, including pieces by Tennessee Williams and Orson Welles. Over the course of his life, his intellectual pursuits led him around the world. He cultivated a circle of artistic friends that included Gertrude Stein, W.H. Auden, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Stephen Spender, and Carson McCullers. Just as fascinating for his flamboyant personality as for his literary success, Bowles' leftist politics and experimentation with drugs make him an ever-controversial character. Carr delves into Bowles' unconventional marriage to Jane Auer and his self-exile in Morocco. Close friends with him before his death in 1999, Carr's first-hand knowledge of Bowles is undeniable. This book encompasses her personal experiences plus ten years of research and interviews with some two hundred of Bowles' acquaintances. Virginia Spencer Carr has written a riveting biography that tells not only the story of Paul Bowles' literary genius, but also of a crucial period of redefinition in American culture. Carr is simultaneously entertaining and precise, delivering a wealth of information on one of the most mythologized figures of mid-century literature.
Author : Paul Bowles,Jane Bowles
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032584115
Author : Michelle Green
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060922672
The impressive account of the amazing characters--Paul and Jane Bowles, Truman Capote, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, among others--who gathered during the 1940s and '50s in Tangier, Morocco: a city where drugs, sex, and just about everything seemed possible and permissible. Photo insert.
Author : Barry Charles Tharaud
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781640140806
Shows that the writings of Paul Bowles, who is often seen as a literary renegade, owe much to the antinomian American tradition of Emerson and his literary descendants.
Author : Cherie Nutting,Paul Bowles
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049643888
Fifteen years ago, Cherie Nutting returned to Morocco. She had first visited it as a child with her mother, and the images of mystery and the desert had stayed with her, fueled over the years by accounts of expatriate life and by the literature created there. In Tangier again, she met the most famous of the expatriates and author of the classic The Sheltering Sky. Cherie became a friend of Paul Bowles and part of his circle. Over the years, the friendship deepened and widened. Yesterday's Perfume is a memoir of that friendship and of Cherie's love of Morocco. She had unparalleled access to Paul, and recorded, journal-like, their conversations and the events of everyday life. Interwoven among Cherie's narrative are bits and pieces of Paul's previously unpublished writings -- diarylike fragments, retellings of dreams, little stories -- a sharp counterpoint in his inimitable voice. Unlike most memoirs, Yesterday's Perfume is blessed with a wealth of extraordinary images. Cherie has created a visual record of their friendship, capturing intimate moments, making formal portraits, recording the comings and goings of celebrities and friends. And here, too, the dialogue with Bowles continues, for Paul has jotted down his reactions in the borders and on the prints. Several other friends have contributed to these pages, Peter Beard, Ned Rorem, and Bruce Weber among them. But key is the collaboration of Cherie and Paul. Together they have created a touching portrait of friendship and a road map to the mind of an artist.
Author : Millicent Dillon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520224930
You Are Not I is a portrait of the elusive writer-composer Paul Bowles, who left the United States in 1947 to live permanently in Morocco. There he created some of the finest American prose of the century, including the international bestseller The Sheltering Sky. In his brilliant and terrifying short stories and novels, he explores haunting themes of desire, exile, and emotional disintegration. Millicent Dillon interweaves episodes in Paul Bowles's life, distillations of his work, reports of their conversations, and speculations on the connections between his life and his work.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Moroccan literature (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015008453170
"Nelson Dyar, an average bank clerk, was bored with the monotony of his life. So he quit his job, gambled his savings on a steamship ticket, and sailed for Tangier. There, overwhelmed by the sights, sounds and smells of exotic North Africa, he flirted with danger, drugs and sensual abandonment, fell in love with an Arab girl, and plunged headlong to his terrifying doom."--Back cover.
Author : Paul Bowles,Simon Bischoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006068063
Fotografier fra Marokko taget af forfatteren Paul Bowles f. 1910; disse giver en visuel oplevelse af temaer fra forfatterskabet
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0141191384
A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades' trip becomes prolonged and they grow increasingly dependent on their new acquaintances, an undercurrent of cruelty begins to disturb the comfort and niceties to which they are accustomed. Up Above the World shows Paul Bowles to be a master of the tension and horror of rising viciousness.