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Article: The Stories of Paul Bowles. (Reviews: the coldest eye).
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- Harper's Magazine
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- March 1, 2002
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The Stories of Paul Bowles. Ecco Press, 2001. 672 pages. $39.95.
"Ten or twelve years ago there came to live in Tangier a man who would have done better to stay away." So begins "The Eye," one of the more than sixty stories collected in The Stories of Paul Bowles, recently published by Ecco Press. This wickedly portentous sentence could just as easily serve as the opening of most of the short stories in the current volume--especially if one were to expand the list of ill-advised travel destinations to include nearly all of Morocco and a virtual Baedeker of hellish jungle outposts in Latin America and Asia. Paul Bowles's obsessive subject is the tragic, even fatal ...