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Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Virginia Spencer Carr
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810125250
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
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000912517
Exploring the life of the world-shaping system of capitalism and the writings of leading thinkers, this book gives an account of recent developments of capitalism, including the impact of the global Climate Crisis, questions around democracy and capitalism, and the impact of COVID-19. Capitalism stands unrivalled as the most enduring economic system of our times. Since the collapse of the Soviet bloc the world has become a new stage for capital, and yet despite this dominance capitalism is still not widely understood. In this volume Paul Bowles addresses some of the key questions around the history of capitalism; What are the central, unchanging features of capitalism? How does capitalism vary from place to place and over time? Does capitalism improve our lives? Is capitalism a system which is "natural" and "free"? Or is it unjust and unstable? What about today’s global capitalism? Will capitalism destroy or liberate us? This third edition of a classic text includes updates to all chapters with the inclusion of more global material, as well as a new chapter focussing on the future of capitalism, the clash of different capitalisms including neoliberal versus state capitalism, and whether we are seeing the end of capitalism and, if so, what post-capitalism might look like.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Sort of Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781908745262
Paul Bowles began travelling the moment he could - leaving America as a teenager to visit Gertrude Stein in Paris. He settled in Morocco after the war, and for thirty years travelled in North Africa, Central America, Southeast Asia, Indian and Sri Lanka (where he bought an island). He wrote articles, essays and journals along the way - writing which ranks with his novels in its astute observation, dry wit and impeccable prose. Travels brings together for the first time Paul Bowles's travel writing and journals. It includes the full text of his book Their Heads Are Green along with thirty other pieces, previously unpublished in book form. They are accompanied by fifty photos from the Bowles archive.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Morocco
ISBN : 0965283763
A collection of stories by the late American writer and longtime expatriate residing in Morocco covers the breadth of his literary career.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062119346
Paul Bowles’s classic collection of short stories, now available in a a deluxe paperback edition—part of Ecco’s Art of the Story series “All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the charcters’ behavior.” In such stories as “A Distant Episode” and How Many Midnights,” Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality. Bowles captures the duality of human frailty and cruelty in these seventeen taut and atmospheric tales, written between 1939 and 1949. Brutal and gorgeous, visceral yet profound, this timeless collection is “one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature. . . at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. . . . His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle” (Tobias Wolff).
Author : Jim Booth
Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062119353
In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Morocco
ISBN : UOM:39015028923889
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061137419
Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and hls world.
Author : Allen Hibbard
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015026983109
This author gives a pointed inspection of Paul Bowles' short stories including interviews, letters, prefaces and other biographical materials that span over ten years and closing with a collection of public commentaries on his writings.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 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
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,6 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.