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Article: Paul Bowles.
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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When Paul Bowles died in Tangier, Morocco, in November 1999, one of the last remaining links to an entire artistic sensibility was also lost. His career, spanning nearly seventy years, was initiated with the publication of several of his poems in transition, a literary magazine dedicated to the revolutionary and the experimental, and was quickly transformed into a twentieth-century dreamscape where he traveled from New York to Europe and North Africa for lengthy residential stays. During this time, Bowles met and worked alongside many of the leading figures of modernism, including Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thompson, and Tennessee Williams. ...