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Paul Bowles is the author of El cielo protector (2021), A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (2019), Il pastore Dowe a Tacaté (2016), Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue (2016), Il tè nel deserto (2014).

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El cielo protector

release date: Jun 20, 2021
El cielo protector
Clásico contemporáneo, llevada al cine por Bernardo Bertolucci, El cielo protector es la novela que consagró a Paul Bowles, uno de los más grandes escritores norteamericanos del siglo XX. Narra el derrotero de Port y Kit Moresby, un refinado matrimonio que tras doce años de unión y con la casi certeza de que su relación ha encallado, deciden viajar al norte de África. Los acompaña un amigo, Turner, acaba de terminar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, viven holgadamente de la herencia que el padre dejó a Port, y se supone que la travesía habrá de devolverlos a una plenitud perdida. Sin embargo, apenas se adentran en el desierto, son capturados por un paisaje incomparable y una cultura desconocida y no fácil de descifrar. Turner abre una herida en la pareja; y aunque fascinante, un entorno cruel y hostil los precipita hacia caminos distintos. La razón se debilita, el amor prácticamente se desvanece, la traición se impone, y aquello que fue pensado como un viaje de reencuentro revela su auténtico propósito: cada uno por su lado debe descubrir porqué está en ese lugar, tan cerca del vacío y la muerte, tan alejados de la cómoda y monótona vida neoyorkina. Con una prosa seca y una notable perspicacia psicológica, El cielo protector es una aventura asombrosa y un recordatorio de que afuera del propio lugar uno puede descubrir su destino, siempre que se acepten las agudas sorpresas que ese descubrimiento puede deparar.

A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard

release date: Jan 13, 2019
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
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 himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act it out in reality. Idir''s victory over Lahcen is the classical story of the kif-smoker''s ability to outwit the drinker. Driss the soldier, with aid of kit, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them the kif-pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others, but above all with themselves. "His work is art. At his best Paul Bowles has no peer."—Time

Il pastore Dowe a Tacaté

release date: Nov 17, 2016
Il pastore Dowe a Tacaté
Il pastore Dowe pensava che quella nella foresta amazzonica sarebbe stata una missione semplice: ha già portato la parola di dio in molti luoghi remoti, gli indios di Tacatè sono miti per natura e lui ha diligentemente imparato il loro dialetto. Quando si trova a predicare purtroppo gli abitanti sono distratti e se ne vanno appena finisce di parlare. Come fare a ottenere la loro attenzione? Glielo svela il saggio Nicolás, portavoce del villaggio: con la musica. Verrà meno ai suoi ideali, il pastore Dowe, o sfodererà il suo vecchio grammofono pur di toccare le anime dei nuovi fedeli? Tratto da: “La delicata preda”, pubblicato da Feltrinelli. Numero di caratteri: 52.432

Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue

release date: Jan 27, 2016
Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue
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 happiest away from civilization as we know it; like them, he thrives when the traveling is hardest, the food ghastly or infrequent, water scarce, heat intolerable, or mosquitoes abundant. This engaging collection of eight travel essays by the author of such noted fiction as The Sheltering Sky and The Delicate Prey deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen—places as yet unencumbered by the trappings, luxuries, and corruptions of modern civilization. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with remote spots in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Mohammedan worlds. The author is a sympathetic and discerning interpreter of these alien cultures, and his eyes and ears are especially alert both to what is bizarre and what is wise in the civilizations in which he settles. He is also acutely aware of the transitions occurring on the fringes of many of these regions, and he is disturbed and indignant about the corrosive effect of Western culture on the non-Christian way of life. Above all, however, Paul Bowles is a superb and observant traveler—born wanderer who finds pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships matter-of-factly and with humor. These essays provide us with Paul Bowles''s characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

Il tè nel deserto

release date: Oct 07, 2014
Il tè nel deserto
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 storia che una giovane donna del deserto racconta all’americano Porter Moresby, e simile a quello delle ragazze potrebbe essere il sogno di lui. Port ha lasciato new York, nel secondo dopoguerra, per fare un viaggio in Nord Africa, con sua moglie Kit e l’amico Gorge Tunnel. Port e Kit non si considerano turisti, bensì viaggiatori: non sanno dove si fermeranno, non hanno tempi prefissati per spostarsi, né un vero luogo cui fare ritorno. Nel loro peregrinare scoprono un paese culturalmente distante, dove gli occidentali si sentono sempre stranieri. Ciononostante, o forse proprio per questo, sotto i cieli assolati, complici il paesaggio sahariano e l’atmosfera del Magreb, la coppia in crisi cerca di ritrovare se stessa. E ci proverà attraverso vie tortuose, fatte di tradimenti e incomprensioni, lui convinto ch el’esistenza sia priva di significati, mentre lei ne è alla continua ricerca. In un crescendo di tensione, via via che il viaggio prosegue, la storia precipita verso il tragico epilogo. Il ‘tè nel deserto’ è il primo romanzo di Paul Bowles e il suo bestseller.

In Touch

release date: Oct 07, 2014
In Touch
This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. From his earliest extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious effusions to Aaron Copeland and to Gertrude Stein; from his meditations on mescaline as relayed to Ned Rorem, to his intensely moving letters to Jane Bowles during her illness, In Touch fills in the lacunae left by previous biographers and offers a rare look at the many aspects of Bowles''s brilliant career—as composer, novelist, short-story master, travel writer, translator, ethnographer, and literary critic. Here is Bowles on the genesis of his first novel, The Sheltering Sky; on his distaste for Western melodies and his dogged attempts to record indigenous Moroccan music; on the Beats, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Tennessee Williams; on the nature and craft of writing; on Bernardo Bertolucci, David Byrne, and Sting; on the decline of American and the challenges of living in North Africa. Gossipy, reflective, enlightening, and always entertaining, In Touch stands as an epistolary autobiography of one of the legendary writers of our time, and a unique chronicle of the twentieth-century avant-garde.

Pagine da Cold Point

release date: Dec 16, 2012
Pagine da Cold Point
Nella fresca campagna di Cold Point non si incontrano case per chilometri e chilometri. Rifugiarvisi, portare tuo figlio lontano da scuola e distrazioni, sembra la soluzione migliore per ricercare quel rapporto perduto. Eppure, nelle placide acque del lago di Cold Point potrebbero emergere turbamenti a lungo sommersi. E potrebbe essere impossibile celarli ai pochi ma vigili occhi che scrutano l''estraneo.Tratto da “La delicata preda”, pubblicato da Feltrinelli. Numero di caratteri: 53352.

La casa del ragno

release date: Feb 21, 2012
La casa del ragno
Un grande romanzo, impregnato d’Africa, dall’indimenticato autore di Il té nel deserto. Il dilemma irrisolvibile dell’essere uno straniero immerso in una società molto diversa dalla propria e la difficoltà di comprendersi fra culture diverse, temi ricorrenti della scrittura di Paul Bowles, vengono messi in scena con una brutale franchezza in questo romanzo ambientato a Fez, in Marocco, durante i sommovimenti nazionalisti che nel 1954 dilaniarono il paese. Tuttora attualissimo, anche alla luce della scottante situazione del Medio Oriente contemporaneo, animato dall’interno da un’ambientazione evocata con grande efficacia e da un carnet di personaggi indimenticabili, La casa del ragno è forse il libro più riuscito, sottile e penetrante di Paul Bowles.

The Spider's House

release date: Nov 15, 2011
The Spider's House
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 thriller." -New York Times The dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent themes of Paul Bowles’s writings, are dramatized with brutal honesty in this novel set in Fez, Morocco, during that country’s 1954 nationalist uprising. Totally relevant to today’s political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, richly descriptive of its setting, and uncompromising in its characterizations, The Spider’s House is perhaps Bowles’s best, most beautifully subtle novel.

Let it Come Down

release date: Aug 09, 2011
Let it Come Down
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.

Pod osłoną nieba

release date: Jan 01, 2010

The Stories of Paul Bowles

release date: Oct 31, 2006
The Stories of Paul Bowles
The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry—possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at TecatÉ," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at CorazÓn," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In "Allal," a boy''s drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serpent leads to his violent death. Here also are some of Bowles''s most famous works, including "The Delicate Prey," a grimly satisfying tale of vengeance, and "A Distant Episode," which Tennessee Williams proclaimed "a masterpiece."

Points in Time

release date: Oct 31, 2006
Points in Time
In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing expreience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along the way to create resonant images of the country, it''s landscapes, and the beliefs and characteristics of its inhabitants.

La delicata preda

release date: Jan 25, 2006
La delicata preda
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. Qui vigono culture differenti, lontane, fuori del cosiddetto mondo civile, qui si svela l’intrinseca difficoltà di comunicazione tra civiltà diverse. Il desiderio di avventura spesso si fa voluttà di perdersi, ma il confronto con l’altro da sé può essere rivelatore. Estraneità e distanza possono generare ansia, paura, vero e proprio orrore (come nel racconto Un episodio remoto dove un professore bianco, catturato da mercanti nomadi che gli tagliano la lingua, viene ridotto a una sorta di animale da circo). Sono storie visio-narie che sembrano sogni a occhi aperti, talora incubi (non a caso la dedica del libro è alla madre che per prima fece conoscere a Bowles i racconti di Poe), dove realtà e fantasia si mescolano e scambiano i ruoli (cosicché può pure accadere che una pazza si trasformi nella sorella sana, come in Tu non sei me).

Paul Bowles on Music

release date: Sep 02, 2003
Paul Bowles on Music
"In this wonderfully engaging and informative collection we hear the voice of a different Paul Bowles. Writing on a wide range of subjects--jazz, film music, classical music, popular music, ethnic music--he is direct, opinionated, incisive, analytical, humorous, and passionate."—Millicent Dillon, author of You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles

Their Heads Are Green

release date: Jun 01, 2003
Their Heads Are Green
Traces the author's journeys to the remote parts of North Africa, Indonesia, and central Asia, during which he observed how the local cultures were virtually untouched by the modern world's materialism and corruption. Reprint.

Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings (LOA #135)

release date: Aug 26, 2002
Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings (LOA #135)
Collects the author''s short stories, a novella titled "Up Above the World," and a travel book first published in 1963.

Zavetje neba

release date: Jan 01, 1997

The Time of Friendship

release date: Jan 01, 1995
The Time of Friendship
This edition presents a short story by Paul Bowles, illustrated by the photographer Vittorio Santoro.

The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles

release date: Jan 01, 1994

Paul Bowles Photographs

release date: Jan 01, 1994
Paul Bowles Photographs
Fotografier fra Marokko taget af forfatteren Paul Bowles f. 1910; disse giver en visuel oplevelse af temaer fra forfatterskabet

El Cel protector

release date: Jan 01, 1994

Conversations with Paul Bowles

release date: Jan 01, 1993
Conversations with Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles says: Each man''s life has the quality he gives it, but you can''t say that life itself has any qualities. If we suffer, it''s because we haven''t learned how not to. The man who wrote the books didn''t exist. No Writer exists. He exists in his books, and that''s all. I write unconsciously, without knowing what I am writing.

Too Far from Home

release date: Jan 01, 1992

Un episodio distante

release date: Jan 01, 1992

Two Years Beside the Strait

release date: Jan 01, 1990

Himmel über der Wüste

release date: Jan 01, 1990

Unwelcome Words

release date: Jan 01, 1988

Call at Corazón and Other Stories

release date: Jan 01, 1988
Call at Corazón and Other Stories
This collection assembles some of Paul Bowles' finest work up to the present day.
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