Article: In memoriam: Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles

The fame of Paul Bowles rests squarely on his fiction, an oeuvre that includes the novels The sheltering shy (1949) and Up above the world (1966), the collection of short stories The delicate prey (dating from the early 1950s), and a volume of autobiography, Without stopping (1972). However, he was also a composer, and, like the English author Anthony Burgess, one for whom the writing of music was an important ancillary to the principal pursuit of fiction. Before moving to Tangiers in 1947 to become a member of that mythical circle based around the court of Barbara Sutton at Sidi Hosni, Bowles had written a number of dramatic works. These included the ballets Yankee Clipper ...

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