Avoid the Orient
Colm Tóibín: The Ghastly Paul Bowles, 4 January 2007
Paul Bowles: A Life
by Virginia Spencer Carr.
Peter Owen, 431 pp., £19.95, July 2005,0 7206 1254 3 Show More
by Virginia Spencer Carr.
Peter Owen, 431 pp., £19.95, July 2005,
“... Long before the sin of Orientalism was discovered, Paul Bowles had frequently been guilty of it, in word, in thought and in deed. In his first stories, for example, the natives are shining examples of naked otherness, created partly to refresh our view concerning the mixture of simplicity, guile and sexual beauty available in remote places ... ”