Days - A Tangier Diary

Informationen zum Autor Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky , Let It Come Down , The Spider's House , and Up Above the World . In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999. Klappentext Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing informality, clear-sightedness, and passages of exquisite prose, these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider, a brutal episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In Days , a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence, giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in late twentieth-century Tangier. Zusammenfassung Between 1987 and 1989! Paul Bowles! at the suggestion of a friend! kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals! conversations! and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing informality! clear-sightedness! and passages of exquisite prose! these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider! a brutal episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace! and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In Days ! a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence! giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in late twentieth-century Tangier. ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Bowles, Bowles Paul
• Editore: Ecco Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.06.2006
• EAN: 9780061137365
• ISBN: 978-0-06-113736-5
• Pagine: 128
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 205 mm x 9 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Sociology, Africa, Memoirs, Morocco, Middle East, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of engineering and technology, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Travel and holiday, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers, Biography: science, technology and medicine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, FICTION: General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, TRAVEL: Middle East / General, TRAVEL: Africa / North / Morocco, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING: History, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: African