Paul Bowles by Barry Charles Tharaud - 9781640140806

Paul BowlesIn the American Grain\nAuthor(s): Barry Charles Tharaud\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640140806, 978-1640140806\nSynopsis\nShows that the writings of Paul Bowles, who is often seen as a literary renegade, owe much to the antinomian American tradition of Emerson and his literary descendants.\n\nPaul Bowles has often been considered a cult writer, a literary renegade: he lived more than fifty years as an expatriate in Morocco, and according to Norman Mailer, his works \""let in the murder, the drugs, the incest . . . the call of the orgy, the end of civilization.\"" In recent decades Bowles has found greater acceptance as a serious writer, as evidenced by the two-volume, 2,000-page Library of America edition of his works published in 2002. Still, he has rarely if ever been seen as having written in the antinomian tradition of Emerson and his literary descendants. The present book makes the case fo""