Paul Bowles - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Paul Bowles is best known as the expatriate author of the 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky, and is a literary icon for his connections with legendary 20th century artists such as Gertrude Stein, Tennessee Williams, Orson Welles, Aaron Copland and William S. Burroughs. After visiting Europe and Northern Africa in the early 1930s, Bowles worked in New York as a composer and music critic. In 1938 he married acclaimed writer Jane Auer (later Jane Bowles), and in 1947 he moved to Morocco, where he began writing. The Sheltering Sky was a critical and commercial success, and Bowles secured a place for himself as an outsider and an astute observer of the differences between cultures. His other works include The Spider's House (1955), A Life Full of Holes (1964) and an autobiography, Without Stopping (1972).

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My Interests

Baptism Of Solitude: A Tribute To Paul Bowles

I'd like to meet:

Peter Orlovsky, William Burroughs, Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles & Allen Ginsberg in Burroughs’ Villa Mouniera garden, Tangier Morocco - July 1961

Paul Bowles, Allen, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Ian sommervill in William’s Villa Mouniera garden, Taniger Morocco - July 1961

Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Michael Portman and Ian Sommerville on the rooftop balcony of Burroughs' Villa Mouniera, Tangier, Morocco - July 1961

Paul Bowles and Dissidenten

Paul Bowles and Ken Smith

Brandon Lee talks about The Sheltering Sky

Here is the quote:

Because we do not know when we will die we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well and yet everything happens only a certain number of times and a very small number really. How many times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your life that you can't even conceive of your life without it. Perhaps four or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise, perhaps twenty, and yet it all seems so limitless.

~ From The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Music:

Paul Bowles on Music

The Sheltering Sky - Soundtrack from the movie

The Police's cover of King of Pain - Tea in The Sahara (inspired by The Sheltering Sky)

Movies:

Cover of Bernardo Bertolucci's movie "The Sheltering Sky"

Books:

Novels
1949 The Sheltering Sky
1952 Let It Come Down
1955 The Spider's House
1966 Up Above the World
1991 Too Far From Home
Collections of short stories
1950 A Little Stone
1950 The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
1959 The Hours after Noon
1962 A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
1967 The Time of Friendship
1968 Pages from Cold Point and Other Stories
1975 Three Tales
1977 Things Gone & Things Still Here
1979 Collected Stories, 1939-1976
1982 Points in Time
1988 Unwelcome Words: Seven Stories
Poetry
1933 Two Poems
1968 Scenes
1972 The Thicket of Spring
1981 Next to nothing: collected poems, 1926-1977
Translations
Among his life's accomplishments were translations of stories from the oral tradition of native Moroccan storytellers including Mohammed Mrabet, Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi (Larbi Layachi), Abdeslam Boulaich, and Ahmed Yacoubi. He also translated the Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri.
1964 A Life Full Of Holes, by Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi (Larbi Layachi)
1968 Love With A Few Hairs, by Mohammed Mrabet
1968 The Lemon, by Mohammed Mrabet
1970 M'Hashish, by Mohammed Mrabet
1974 The Boy Who Set the Fire, by Mohammed Mrabet
1976 Look & Move On, by Mohammed Mrabet
1976 Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins, by Mohammed Mrabet
1979 Five Eyes, by Abdeslam Boulaich, Mohamed Choukri, Larbi Layachi, Mohammed Mrabet, and Ahmed Yacoubi
Travel pieces and autobiography
1957 Yallah, text by Paul Bowles, photos by Peter W. Haeberlin
1963 Their Heads are Green, travel
1972 Without stopping; an autobiography
1995 In Touch - The letters of Paul Bowles, edited by Jeffrey Miller