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Bezig met laden... A Hundred Camels in the Courtyarddoor Paul Bowles
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Bowles shows us a reality completely foreign to our own and makes it fascinating if sometimes also terrifying. One might call this a journey into getting high - or, folk tales by a beat trying to make getting high look exotic. ( ) ""A pipe of kif before breakfast makes a man as strong as a hundred camels in the courtyard." So reads the proverb at the beginning of the book. Some tend to agree. These Moroccan kif parables are meticulously and miraculously translated by Paul Bowles. As a fan of Mr. Bowles translations over his own work, I am constantly blown away by his erudition and insight. These stories are a must read for any fan of folklore, particularly from the Riffian and/or Moghrebi traditions. Strangely moral, highly entertaining, poetic, captivating, spooky, magical, tense and hilarious, these stories are irreplaceable in the history of the transcription of Moghrebi and for all readers." geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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. "His work is art. At his best Paul Bowles has no peer." --Time "[W]riters and artists such as Williams, Jack Kerouac, Francis Bacon, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg to Tangier. . .sought Bowles as an oracle, a writer whose work demonstrated its author as an original who saw farther, deeper, and clearer, and who refused to flinch."--The Australian Paul Bowles (1910-1999) was an expatriate composer, author, and translator. His other famous literary works includeThe Sheltering Sky,Travels: Collected Writings 1950-1993, andWithout Stopping Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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