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The Delicate Prey
"The Delicate Prey" is a piece of short fiction by Paul Bowles. It was written in 1949 and first published in Paris in the summer 1949 issue of the small literary journal ''Zero''. In 1950, Random House presented the story in the collection of Bowles's short fiction, '' The Delicate Prey and Other Stories''. This short story is considered one of Bowles' most outstanding and controversial works of fiction. "The Delicate Prey" was declined for inclusion by the British John Lehmann publishers in its collection of Bowles's works ''A Little Stone'' in 1950. It would not be printed in Britain until 1968 due to censorship issues. Plot Two brothers of the Filala commune, both leather merchants in Tabelbala Algeria, travel on business to the city of Tessalit, accompanied by their young nephew, Driss. The journey takes them though a remote mountain region historically roamed by the Reguibat, regarded as bandits. En route, they encounter a lone traveler who identifies himself as a Moungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Delicate Prey And Other Stories
''The Delicate Prey and Other Stories'' is a collection of 17 works of short fiction by Paul Bowles, published in 1950 by Random House. Typical of Bowles's ''oeuvre'', the majority of the stories in this volume are set in Latin American and North Africa. Only two are set in the United States. Bowles, at the time of its publication, was known primarily for his work as an American modernist composer. ''The Delicate Prey and Other Stories'' established him as a notable literary talent. The stories published in this collection include a number of ''chef-d'oeuvres'', including "A Distant Episode", "Pages from Cold Point" and "The Delicate Prey". Stories * '' at paso rojo'' * ''pastor dowe at tacaté'' * ''call at corazon'' * ''under the sky'' * ''señor ong and señor ha'' * ''the circular valley'' * '' the echo'' * ''the scorpion'' * ''the fourth day out from santa cruz'' * ''pages from cold point'' * '' you are not i'' * ''how many midnights'' * ''a thousand days to mokhatar'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bowles
Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel ''The Sheltering Sky'' (1949), set in French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931. In 1947, Bowles settled in Tangier, at that time in the Tangier International Zone, and his wife Jane Bowles followed in 1948. Except for winters spent in Ceylon during the early 1950s, Tangier was Bowles's home for the remainder of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kenyon Review
''The Kenyon Review'' is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College. ''The Review'' was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959. ''The Review'' has published early works by generations of important writers, including Robert Penn Warren, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Flannery O'Connor, Boris Pasternak, Bertolt Brecht, Peter Taylor, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Hecht, Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, Derek Walcott, Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, Woody Allen, Louise Erdrich, William Empson, Linda Gregg, Mark Van Doren, Kenneth Burke, and Ha Jin."History" the ''Kenyon Review'' Website, Retrieved January 26, 2007 The magazine's short stories have won more |