Even though Paul Bowles (1910-1999) wrote stories, composed music, and lived in some of the world's most exotic places, he was not one who craved recognition. The general public, even those who consid...
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Paul Bowles was born in New York City, the only child of Claude Dietz Bowles, a dentist, and Rena Winewisser. He attended the University of Virginia for two semesters, drawn to the school because Edg...
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Paul Bowles has never fit well into a single category; he is intensely private, preferring to display his life only in art and variously as poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, journalist, ...
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Paul Bowles is one of the best American short-story writers of the twentieth century. The most salient aspect of all Bowles's fiction, the four novels as well as the short fiction, is the use of forei...
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In the following essay, Moss attempts "to locate the aesthetic strategies of (Paul) Bowles's aversion to introspection in Without Stopping."
Paul Bowles's autobiography,...
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Critical Essay by Joyce Carol Oates
In one of his poems, D. H. Lawrence speaks of a creature whose origin predates not only man, but God—a creature born "before God was love"...
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Critical Essay by Harry Marten
[Bowles's Collected Stories is] often brutal, sometimes night-marish, full of sudden inexplicable violences. They present an unsettling mixture of linguistic aus...
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Critical Essay by Irving Malin
[Although] the meticulously described landscape changes [in The Collected Stories], the situation of Bowles' heroes remains the same.
The hero is usually a di...
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Critical Essay by Tennessee Williams
Paul Bowles is a man and author of exceptional latitude but he has, like nearly all serious artists, a dominant theme. That theme is the fearful isolation of the ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Gorham Davis
There is nothing obscure or surrealist in "Let It Come Down"; the writing is always perfectly lucid, the author always completely in control. Bowle...
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Critical Essay by Richard Hayes
Paul Bowles stages his impressive novels in a climate of violence and pervading sentient awareness. The atmosphere in which his characters move and have their being is...
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Critical Essay by William Peden
Paul Bowles knows the Arab world and seemingly understands it as very few "foreigners" have. "The Spider's House" is his fourth work...
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Critical Essay by Freya Stark
["Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue" is] a collection of nine essays on journeys to remote areas of the Hindu, Mohammedan and Buddhist worlds ...
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Critical Essay by Michael Pettit
There are nine stories in [Things Gone and Things Still Here], all but one set in North Africa …, characterized generally by a modest narrative style, rather d...
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Paul Bowles
Paul (Frederick) Bowles
Marilyn Moss
