| Titre : |
Collected stories & later writings |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Paul Bowles (1910-1999), Auteur ; Daniel Halpern (1945-....), Editeur scientifique |
| Editeur : |
New York [États-Unis] : Library of America |
| Année de publication : |
2002 |
| Collection : |
Library of America num. 135 |
| Importance : |
XI-1062 p. |
| Format : |
21 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-931082-20-4 |
| Note générale : |
Réf. bibliogr. Index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Écrivains américains -- 20e siècle ; Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle ; Maroc -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc ; Nouvelles américaines -- 20e siècle
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| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at age 38, he published The Sheltering Sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period ... From his base in Tangier he produced novels, stories, and travel writings in which exquisite surfaces over violent undercurrents mingle. [He] charts the unpredictable collisions between "civilized" exiles and unfamiliar societies that they can never really grasp. In fiction of slowly gathering menace, [he] achieves effects of horror and dislocation with an elegantly spare style and understated wit. With a hallucinatory clarity as dry and unforgiving as the desert air, he sends his characters toward encounters with unknown and terrifying forces both outside them and within them. This [volume,] with its companion The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, is the first annotated edition of Bowles' work, offering the full range of his literary achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last half century ... This volume also contains Up Above the World (1966), a frightening novella set in Latin America in which a trusting American couple are lured into an annihilating trap, and the informed and fascinating travel book Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). -- Dust jacket |
| Note de contenu : |
The delicate prey and other stories -- Hundred camels in the courtyard -- The time of friendship -- Things gone and things still here -- Midnight mass -- Selected later stories -- Their heads are green and their hands are blue -- Up above the world -- Notes bibliogr -- Index -- Chronologie |
Collected stories & later writings [texte imprimé] / Paul Bowles (1910-1999), Auteur ; Daniel Halpern (1945-....), Editeur scientifique . - New York (États-Unis) : Library of America, 2002 . - XI-1062 p. ; 21 cm. - ( Library of America; 135) . ISBN : 978-1-931082-20-4 Réf. bibliogr. Index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Écrivains américains -- 20e siècle ; Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle ; Maroc -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc ; Nouvelles américaines -- 20e siècle
|
| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at age 38, he published The Sheltering Sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period ... From his base in Tangier he produced novels, stories, and travel writings in which exquisite surfaces over violent undercurrents mingle. [He] charts the unpredictable collisions between "civilized" exiles and unfamiliar societies that they can never really grasp. In fiction of slowly gathering menace, [he] achieves effects of horror and dislocation with an elegantly spare style and understated wit. With a hallucinatory clarity as dry and unforgiving as the desert air, he sends his characters toward encounters with unknown and terrifying forces both outside them and within them. This [volume,] with its companion The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, is the first annotated edition of Bowles' work, offering the full range of his literary achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last half century ... This volume also contains Up Above the World (1966), a frightening novella set in Latin America in which a trusting American couple are lured into an annihilating trap, and the informed and fascinating travel book Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). -- Dust jacket |
| Note de contenu : |
The delicate prey and other stories -- Hundred camels in the courtyard -- The time of friendship -- Things gone and things still here -- Midnight mass -- Selected later stories -- Their heads are green and their hands are blue -- Up above the world -- Notes bibliogr -- Index -- Chronologie |
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