''The Time of Friendship'' is a collection of 13 works of short fiction by
Paul Bowles published in 1967 by
Holt, Rinehart and Winston. A number of the stories included in this volume appeared earlier "in various places during the 1950s and 1960s."
The short stories that appear in ''The Time of Friendship'' are among the 39 works that Bowles wrote from the late 1930s to the 1970s. Other collections published in the United States include ''
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 No ...
'' (1950) and ''Things Gone and Still Here'' (1977).
His complete short fiction was published in ''Paul Bowles: The Collected Stories, 1939-1976 (''1980) by
Black Sparrow Press.
Contents
* "The Time of Friendship"
* "
The Successor"
* "
The Hours After Noon"
* "A Friend of the World"
* "He of the Assembly"
* "The Story of Lahcen and Idir"
* "The Wind at Beni Midar"
* "
The Hyena"
* "
The Garden"
* "
Doña Faustina"
* "
Tapiama"
* "If I Should Open My Mouth"
* "
The Frozen Fields"
Critical assessment
Shortly before the publication of the collection ''The Time of Friendship'' in 1967, Bowles told interviewer
Daniel Halpern
Daniel Halpern (born September 11, 1945) is the founder of Ecco Press, an imprint of the publisher HarperCollins. He is also the author of nine books of poetry, as well as the co-founder, along with Paul Bowles, of the literary magazine ''Antaeus'' ...
that the short fiction from ''
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 No ...
'' (1950) remained his favorites.
Biographer Allen Hibbard considers the stories in ''The Time of Friendship'' to be "tamer" than those in the earlier volume, and though "no less poignant", lack any effort "to extent the boundaries of what could be done with the short story."
[Hibbard, 1993 p. 53 and p. 87: "The stories are generally less bristling, tamer, than those in '']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 No ...
'' (1950)...Bowles sticks fairly closely to the themes and interests established in his first collection….but no less poignant." Literary critic
Maureen Howard
Maureen Theresa Howard ( Kearns; June 28, 1930 – March 13, 2022) was an American novelist, memoirist, and editor. Her award-winning novels feature women protagonists and are known for formal innovation and a focus on the Irish-American experie ...
writes:
Literary critic
Daniel Stern writes:
Critic
Bernard Bergonzi
Bernard Bergonzi FRSL (13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British literary scholar, critic, and poet. He was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Warwick and an expert on T. S. Eliot.
He was born in London and studied at ...
writes:
Style and theme
Time writes:
Footnotes
Sources
*
Bowles, Paul. 2001. ''Paul Bowles; Collected Stories, 1939-1976''. Black Sparrow Press. Santa Rosa. 2001.
*Hibbard, Allen. 1993. ''Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction''. Twayne Publishers. New York.
*
Vidal, Gore. 1979. ''Introduction to Paul Bowles; Collected Stories, 1939-1976.'' Black Sparrow Press. Santa Rosa. 2001.
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