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  • The Sheltering Sky

    par Paul Bowles ...
    Kit and Port Moresby are an American couple touring North Africa with another man, Turner. As they travel deeper into the Sahara desert, tensions rise and a love triangle emerges: the landscape informs the emotional lives of the characters, who are by turns suffocated by their surroundings and moved by its beauty. Writing in The New York Times, Tennessee Williams called The Sheltering Sky ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sheltering Sky

    par Paul Bowles ...
    “The Sheltering Sky is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in the twentieth century.” —Tobias Wolff"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II.” —New RepublicIn this existential classic of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures—and the ways in which their ... En savoir plus

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  • The Stories of Paul Bowles

    par Paul Bowles ...
    “Bowles’s tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirley its own.” —Tobias WolffAn American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Tobias Wolff. From “The Delicate Prey” ... En savoir plus

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  • For Bread Alone

    par Mohamed Choukri ...
    Traduit par Paul Bowles ...
    Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangier in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of drugs, sex and alcohol. Proud, insolent and afraid of ... En savoir plus

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  • A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard

    par Paul Bowles ...
    First published in 1962, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard by American author Paul Bowles is a book comprising four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches ... En savoir plus

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  • Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue

    par Paul Bowles ...
    In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen—often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class—who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a great colonial power.Save for the fact that he is a staunch anticolonialist, Paul Bowles resembles these men in many respects. Like them, he appears to be ... En savoir plus

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  • The Spider's House

    A Novel

    par Paul Bowles ...
    Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowles’s remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing—vintage Bowles"With its atmosphere of sinister tension, its scenes of nationalist conspiracy and French police action, of escape and pursuit in the Arab quarter, The Spider's House reads for stretches like a first-class political ... En savoir plus

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  • Il tè nel deserto

    par Paul Bowles ...
    Traduit par Hilia Brinis ...
    Si narra che tre ragazze arabe provenienti dalle montagne avessero un solo grande sogno: quello di bere il tè nel Sahara; per questo misero assieme tutto il denaro che avevano e si fecero portare nel deserto, dove di duna in duna andarono in cerca si quella più alta: verranno poi ritrovare da una carovana nella stessa posa in cui si erano addormentate, con le tazze piene di sabbia. È questa la ... En savoir plus

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  • Travels

    Collected Writings, 1950-1993

    par Paul Bowles ...
    “Bowles is at his best when writing about places. He can evoke a place with a few sure strokes.”—New York Times“His work is art. At his best, Bowles has no peer.”—TimeTravels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of the era-defining post-war novel The Sheltering Sky. The acclaimed essays in Travel—never before collected in a single volume—span more than sixty years ... En savoir plus

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  • Let it Come Down

    A Novel

    par Paul Bowles ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Un episodio remoto

    par Paul Bowles ...
    Traduit par Mario Biondi ...
    Il professore ha sviluppato una piccola, insana passione: colleziona scatoline fatte con le mammelle di cammella. Dice di essere disposto al rischio, pur di arricchire la sua raccolta, ma non ha idea del guaio in cui sta per cacciarsi quando, perso il suo fornitore di fiducia, decide di recarsi ai margini del deserto per incontrare di persona i produttori: la famigerata tribù dei Reguibat. “Lì, in ... En savoir plus

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  • La delicata preda

    par Paul Bowles ...
    Paul Bowles è stato uno dei grandi scrittori di racconti americani e tuttavia per lo più non ha scritto storie americane. I suoi paesaggi sono quelli esotici – per un occidentale negli anni quaranta – di America Latina o Nord Africa. Questi racconti, tremendi e potenti, sono infatti ambientati in luoghi misteriosi, inquietanti, dove si vive una condizione di eterni “stranieri”, a sé e agli altri. ... En savoir plus

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