Paul Bowles

Are we travellers or tourists?

#PaulBowles was certainly a traveller.

Find out more about his life at www.paulbowles.org.

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Sixteen-year-old Paul Bowles was deeply impressed by a performance of Stravinsky's The Firebird at Carnegie Hall.

Discover the chronology of Paul Bowles' life at www.paulbowles.org.

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The official Paul Bowles website features a series of songs written in Bowles' early style (1932–1940) that were never previously recorded. These were produced in 2024 at the Yehudi Menuhin Hall in London: www.paulbowles.org/music/paul-b...

#music #soprano #villiersdavid

Films based on the works of Paul Bowles:

🎞️ The Sheltering Sky, Bertolucci, 1990.
🎞️ Halfmoon (based on “The Story of Lahcen and Idir”, “Call at Corazón”, “Allal”), Schleich, 1995.
🎞️ The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid (based on “A Distant Episode”), Rivers, 2015.

Have you seen them all?

“The pieces with the greatest, and those with the smallest amount, of Arabic influence, are both to be found, strangely enough, in the same country: Morocco. ” — Paul Bowles

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In 1933, after travelling in Europe and Morocco, Paul Bowles, aged 23, reaches Ghardaïa, a town in Saharan Algeria. There, he uses the harmonium in the town's church to compose a cantata, using his own French text.
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Listen to unreleased #PaulBowles #music! You can find recordings of his compositions at www.paulbowles.org/music/paul-b....

In The Platinum Forest, 1932
Performed by: Soprano: Sofia Kirwan-Baez
Piano: Zeynep Özsuca, 2024

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This quote by Paul Bowles is from the book "Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926-1977", published by Black Sparrow Press in 1981.

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Notebook with handwritten notes for Bowles’s autobiography Without Stopping (1972) (courtesy of University of Delaware Library Special Collections and Museums).

Have a look at the manuscript in the archives section of Paul Bowles' official website.

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In 1950 John Lehmann publishes "A Little Stone", omitting "The Delicate Prey" and "Pages from Cold Point" because of censorship concerns.

The American version, "The Delicate Prey and Other Stories", includes the two stories and is published by Random House.

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In 1931, at the suggestion of Gertrude Stein, Paul Bowles and Aaron Copland travelled to Morocco for the first time.

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First typewritten page of Bowles’s most celebrated novel, #TheShelteringSky, with an epigraph by #EduardoMallea added in pencil in the upper right margin.

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In 1928, at the age of 17, Paul Bowles publishes the poem "Spire Song" and the prose poem "Entity" in Transition magazine. He enters University of Virginia and experiments with inhaling ether.

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Fragments of draft for parts V and VII of #PointsInTime. On the left-hand page of part V, there is a draft of #JulianVreden.

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In 1982, Ecco Press published "Points in Time" by #PaulBowles. Considered a #lyricalhistory, the book takes the reader on a journey through Moroccan centuries.

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#morocco #history #books #americanauthors

Paul Bowles finished The Sheltering Sky eight months after he had begun it. Doubleday rejected it, asserting that it was not a novel and he had to return the advance they had given him.

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We have just uploaded some unreleased music recordings to the official Paul Bowles website. You can listen to them by following this link: www.paulbowles.org/music/paul-b...

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"There were two volumes about a woman named Bluey Laber Dozlen, who sails from an unidentified European country to Wen Kroy..."
Check out these typescript excerpts where #PaulBowles reflects on his early writing experiences and the character of #Bluey in his #autobiography.

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In 1963 Peter Owen publishes Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue, a collection of travel essays by Paul Bowles.

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#travel #essay #security

In 1931, at the age of 21, #PaulBowles sailed to Europe and met Gertrude Stein for the first time. Paul Bowles recalls this encounter in his autobiography "Without stopping", published in 1971.

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#PaulBowles learns to read by age four and keeps #notebooks with #drawings and stories, a habit that will continue throughout his childhood.

Holograph #juvenilia notebook. Pages from an Imaginary Diary, c. 1918 (courtesy of @ransomcenter.bsky.social).

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#childhood

Quote from "The Spider's house" (1955)
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"A free and fearless spirit, Paul Bowles experimented in several kinds of transgression, and in his work and private life he made few concessions to convention."
Read the biographical note on #PaulBowles by Rodrigo Rey Rosa:
www.paulbowles.org/biography

#transgression #freespirit #americanwriter

Paul Bowles 'A night with thunder in the sky he packed his bag and left,' Paul Bowles wrote in a short autobiographical piece in 1986—referring to an escape from his parents' home in New York City to Paris in 192...

On the official #PaulBowles website you can find rare recording of his music and scores. It may be of interest for your work! www.paulbowles.org.

Paul Bowles in Tangier - The Paris Review “I wanted to tell him that I carried The Sheltering Sky with me wherever I moved. I wanted him to know how much I admired his life, which he’d invented on his own terms.”

"Come for tea," he'd say to almost anyone who asked to see him."

Frederic Tuten of the Paris Review recalls his meeting with #PaulBowles in #Tangier: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/11....

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Check out the #readings of #PaulBowles.

Listen to him reading the #shortnovel “A Friend of the World”, from the collection of kif tales: “A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard”.

https://www.paulbowles.org/writings/Paul%20Bowles%20Reading

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Paul Bowles 'A night with thunder in the sky he packed his bag and left,' Paul Bowles wrote in a short autobiographical piece in 1986—referring to an escape from his parents' home in New York City to Paris in 192...

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Highsmith, Williams, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Purdy, Vidal and Rey Rosa... they all wrote about their encounters with Paul Bowles... On the website paulbowles.org you can find their writings about him: https://buff.ly/4ahE24a.

#americanwriters #Highsmith #Williams #Ginsberg #Burroughs #Purdy #Vidal

Check out the excerpts from Gary Conklin's #documentary "Paul Bowles in Morocco" and footages of #PaulBowles and #AhmedYacoubi in "8X8" by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp & Jean Cocteau: https://buff.ly/4g7zcrS.

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