Memoires d'un nomade. autobiographie

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence--perhaps even the limits of human life --when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the dessert.

Un Thé au Sahara

Thirteen stories written in the five years between 1976 and 1981, "Midnight Mass" picks up where Bowles' Collected Stories left off, and includes the wonderful novella-length "Here to Learn", concerning a young Moroccan woman 'adopted' by various affluent Europeans.

Réveillon À Tanger

"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 and range from Bowles's early days in Paris to his time spent in Ceylon, Thailand, Kenya, and his expatriate life in Morocco. Insightful, exciting, and evocative, featuring original photographs throughout, Travels is a stunning collection of rarely seen shorter works-a showcase of the literary artistry of one of the truly great American writers of the twentieth century.

Travels - Collected Writings, 1950-1993

Leurs mains sont bleues

No terraço de um apartamento sofisticado sobre uma colina com vista para uma capital da América Central, quatro pessoas conversam amigavelmente. Os Slade, um casal de turistas americanos, são recebidos por um homem novo, de grande charme e beleza, que acabam de conhecer, e pela sua amante. Ali sentados, com bebidas na mão e a observar um pôr do sol invulgarmente belo, os Slade parecem estar a viver um daqueles momentos afortunados que povoam a imaginação de todos os viajantes. Mas entre a boa educação e a conversa trivial, um comentário revela-se profético — o anfitrião diz para a mulher americana: «— Não é bem o que você pensa.»Neste romance, Paul Bowles conduz-nos, com inigualável mestria, a um tortuoso labirinto de relações humanas, situado por baixo de uma superfície de hospitalidade e luxo, até à constatação de que aquilo que, a princípio, parece ser um mero encontro casual, está na realidade enraízado no vício e no horror.

La Jungle Rouge

Réédité en tirage limité à l'occasion des trente ans de la collection L'Imaginaire, le roman de Paul Bowles est ici accompagné du DVD du film de Bernardo Bertolucci. Réalisé en 1990 par l'auteur du somptueux film Le dernier empereur, tourné dans les superbes décors de l'Algérie et du Niger, Un thé au Sahara est si fidèle au livre que le rôle du narrateur est tenu par... Paul Bowles lui-même!

Un thé au Sahara

Fiction. In these seven new stories Paul Bowles ranges widely in time, in form, and in geographic area-from Massachusetts to Morocco, from 1932 to the 1970s. Portraits and contemporary scenes mix conventional narration with experimental monologues, and the volume concludes with a tale presented as six letters written to a bitter, dying man. The formal versatility is as arresting as the content. The whole is proof (if it were needed) that, as Gore Vidal remarks, Bowle's art is as disturbing as ever.

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