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Article: You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Millicent Dillon. You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles. Berkeley. University of California Press. 1998. xiv + 340 pages + 12 plates. $27.50. isbn 0-520-21104-9.
Readers expecting a traditional biography in You Are Not I will be surprised - pleasantly or unpleasantly - by Millicent Dillon's approach to creating a "portrait" of Paul Bowles. As Dillon explains in her introduction: "I have interwoven factual material with conversations and speculations. I have been willing to surrender the solidity of chronological factual material in order to render the fluidity of [Paul Bowles's] being and his presence as well as the atmosphere that he himself is constantly in ...