You are not I

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You Are Not I is a unique and daring portrait of the elusive writer-composer Paul Bowles, who left the United States in 1947 to live permanently in Morocco. There he created somé of the finest American prose of the century, including the international bestseller The Sheltering Sky. In his briiliant and terrifying short stories and novels, he explores haunting themes of desire, exile, and emotional disintegration. Millicent Dillon first met Bowles in Tangier in 1977» when she was writing a biography of his late wife, the author Jane Bowles. Almost twenty years later, Dillon returned to Tangier, this time to write about him. In the portrait of Paul Bowles that has emerged, she interweaves episodes in his life, distillations of his work, reports of their conversations, and speculations on the connections between his life and his work. In Bowless dark, smoke-filled apartment Dillon observes the powerful magnetism the aging artist exerts on his circle of visitors. Revealed in... Tovább

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You Are Not I is a unique and daring portrait of the elusive writer-composer Paul Bowles, who left the United States in 1947 to live permanently in Morocco. There he created somé of the finest American prose of the century, including the international bestseller The Sheltering Sky. In his briiliant and terrifying short stories and novels, he explores haunting themes of desire, exile, and emotional disintegration. Millicent Dillon first met Bowles in Tangier in 1977» when she was writing a biography of his late wife, the author Jane Bowles. Almost twenty years later, Dillon returned to Tangier, this time to write about him. In the portrait of Paul Bowles that has emerged, she interweaves episodes in his life, distillations of his work, reports of their conversations, and speculations on the connections between his life and his work. In Bowless dark, smoke-filled apartment Dillon observes the powerful magnetism the aging artist exerts on his circle of visitors. Revealed in conversations that touch on exile and authorship, obsession and madness, Bowles appears by turns charming and evasive, generous and devious. You Are Not I is a biography turnéd inside out. Dillon exposes the structural elements of traditional biography that usually remain concealed. The resulting portrait is at once detached and deeply intimate, a meditation on both subjectivity and the art of writing a life. Vissza