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La poesia de Bowles se relaciona directamente con su relacion con la musica. El mismo explica que" El elemento basico de mi concepcion musical era la armonia mas que la melodia" y esto puede obrservarse claramente en sus poemas. La fascinacion de Bowles con la sonorida del lenguaje verbal fue su primer contacto con el lenguaje musical. Y la fascinacion con la sonoridad lo llevo a uno y otro viaje interior a traves de la conciencia y el subconsciente en su poesia

"In this wonderfully engaging and informative collection we hear the voice of a different Paul Bowles. Writing on a wide range of subjects--jazz, film music, classical music, popular music, ethnic music--he is direct, opinionated, incisive, analytical, humorous, and passionate."--Millicent Dillon, author of "You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles "It's an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. Drawing together the work he did at the intersection of his two passions and professions, writing and music, this volume collects the music criticism Bowles published between 1935 and 1946 as well as an interview conducted by Irene Herrmann shortly before his death. An intimate of Aaron Copland and protege of Virgil Thomson, Bowles was a musical sophisticate acquainted with an enormous range of music. His criticism collected here brilliantly illuminates not only the whole range of modernist composition but also film music, jazz, Mexican and Moroccan music, and many other genres. As a reviewer he reports on established artists and young hopefuls, symphonic concerts indoors and out, and important premieres of works by Copland, Thomson, Cage, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky, among others. Written with the austere grace of his better-known literary works, Bowles's criticism enhances our picture of an important era in American music history as well as our sense of his accomplishments and extraordinary contribution to twentieth-century culture.

Nueva traducción de la obra más emblemática de Paul Bowles, con prólogo del autor inédito hasta ahora en español.

Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an alien culture, and the relentless dangers of a hostile natural world.

La autobiografía de un escritor que abandonó su EE.UU. natal para vivir en aislamiento definitivo en el lejano Tánger.

These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act it out in reality; Idir's victory over Lahcen is the classical story of the kif-smoker's ability to outwit the drinker. Driss the soldier, with aid of kif, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them the kif-pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others but above all with themselves.

Com A Missa do Galo, Paul Bowles oferece-nos uma série de contos maravilhosamente escritos, que nos remetem para outras culturas, marcadamente diferentes da nossa. São histórias sobre os conflitos fa

James Lasdun in his introduction calls Paul Bowles 'One of the great outsiders of our time' and isolation is a major theme in these dark and often unsettling stories. An old woman lives in a cave untroubled by the scorpions that crawl over its walls. A splash of water triggers an explosion of violence. A young girl 'remembers' things back to front while the concluding story is presented as six letters written to a bitter, dying man. In the stories that make up this dazzling collection, Bowles creates a world in which the extreme situations the characters find themselves in move relentlessly towards their logical yet disturbing conclusion.

Leaving his uneventful life in America behind him, Nelson Dyar sails to Tangier to take up work in a travel agency run by an old acquaintance Jack Wilcox. From his arrival he begins to explore the dark underworld of the city: its bars and brothels; its erotic film shows and suspect financial arrangements; its aristocracy and its prostitutes. Determined to make something happen in his new life, he is drawn into a series of increasingly sinister events from which there seems little chance of escape. This dark terrifying novel is arguably Bowles's greatest achievement. 'Bowles is the real article... subversive and dangerous.' Life