Conversations with Paul Bowles

Publisher Marketing: Paul Bowles says: . Each man's life has the quality he gives it, but you can't say that life itself has any qualities. If we suffer, it's because we haven't learned how not to. The man who wrote the books didn't exist. No writer exists. He exists in his books, and that's all. I write unconsciously, without knowing what I am writing. Review Citations: Booklist 11/15/1993 pg. 596 (EAN 9780878056507, Paperback) Booklist 11/15/1993 pg. 596 (EAN 9780878056491, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Bowles, Paul Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short-story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999. Contributor Bio:  Caponi, Gena Dagel Gena Dagel Caponi teaches cultural and intellectual history and is the acting director of American Studies at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She is the editor of "Conversations with Paul Bowles. "