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Paul Bowles (1910
- 1999)
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Paul Bowles in Morocco
Acclaimed
writer and composer Paul Bowles is spotlighted in this intriguing
documentary. Leaving the United States in the 1940s, Bowles
eventually settled in Morocco. The filmmaker finds this urbane and
fascinating man in Tangier, his longtime home. Reading passages
from his novels, recounting stories from his past, visiting his
favorite haunts and philosophizing about the Moroccan people and
their lifestyle, Bowles is captivating. Bowles' homosexuality
isn't mentioned; indeed, the film is more about Moroccan culture
than about the writer himself.
 Paul Bowles -- The Complete Outsider
The
fascinating life of American expatriate cult writer Paul Bowles,
including his marriage to lesbian author Jane Bowles, is candidly
revealed in this documentary filmed in Tangier, Morocco, his home
for most of his adult life. He recounts his early career in
America and life in his adopted land, and fleetingly touches on
his own homosexuality. Of special interest to fans is his
discussion of his early work in classical composition; he has in
fact written four operas. A mystical character, reserved to the
point of being cryptic, complex and contradictory and quietly at
peace with himself. "A tantalizing sketch of the legendary
expatriate." Los Angeles Times
 The
Music of Paul Bowles / Jonathan Sheffer, EOS Orchestra
Paul
Bowles had two careers, one as a composer of music for films,
dance theater, and Broadway; the other as a writer of
extraordinary fiction of the Beat era. While Bowles's fiction has
a roughness and an alienation characteristic of the American
expatriate experience of the 1950s (he moved to Morocco in 1949
and was friends with William S. Burroughs), his music is anything
but. The Pastorela (1947) and Suite for Small Orchestra
(1932-33) rival anything Aaron Copland was writing at the same
time without being derivative or otherwise influenced by Copland's
folksy Americana. As typical of RCA, the recorded sound is
excellent, but special kudos go to the Eos Orchestra who invest
Bowles's music with grace, color, and charm. Don't pass this
release up. --Paul Cook
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In memory of Paul Bowles, American writer and composer, who died on November 18, 1999, in Tangier, Morocco, and of Jane Bowles, who died on May 3, 1973, in Màlaga, Spain. The official Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles Web site was authorized and established by Paul Bowles' literary and musical heirs and friends, with a biography of Paul Bowles, information on his novels, books, short stories, translations, music, scores, documentaries and films, audio clips, memoirs, interviews, galleries of photographs, biography of Jane Bowles and her literary works, and recommended resources and links.
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Excerpt:
Paul Bowles was born in New York City on
December 30, 1910. He was an only child and exhibited early the
existentialist's sense of alienation.
Who was his father? The patriarchal figures in
his stories are often brutal. The true stories of Bowles paints
the pictures of a cold, New York-Edwardian man as his father-- but
not exactly cruel or abusive.
Paul Bowles studied with composer Aaron Copland.
Bowles went on to produce a number of still-produced
mostly-orchestral pieces. Later he wrote music for the work of
Tenessee Williams, a friend and supporter of the talents of both
Paul and his wife Jane.
In his early creative years, prose interested
him less than music. When Gertrude
Stein told him he was "not a real poet," he agreed.
At the time his artistic priorities were musical...
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By Richard F. Patteson
Excerpt:
Having read somewhere that Paul Bowles did not
have, or want, a telephone, I had written him a letter before my
first visit, asking if he would mind meeting with me. He
graciously wrote back immediately, and I later discovered that
many people simply show up at his apartment, introducing
themselves on the spot. He is unfailingly courteous to all of
them.
The purpose of my own intrusion on his time was
to gather what information I could in connection with a book I was
writing about his fiction (A
World Outside: The Fiction of Paul Bowles), and later, a
follow-up article on his translations from the Moghrebi
("Paul Bowles/Mohmammed Mrabet: Translation, Transformation,
and Transcultural Discourse")...
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Archived at the University of Delaware Library
Manuscript Collection Number: 163
Content: Correspondence and literary manuscript.
Access: Open for research use, no restrictions.
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Bowles, Paul (1910-1999 ), American writer and
composer, born in New York City. In the 1930s Bowles left the U.S.
and studied in Europe under American composer Aaron Copland. He
showed his poetry to Gertrude Stein in Paris and traveled with
Aaron Copland through Germany and Morocco. Throughout the late
1930s and early 1940s Bowles developed a brilliant career as a
composer for ballet, theater and films. Between 1943 and 1947 he
wrote scores for twelve plays. Occasionally he composed more
ambitious works, suchs as the Concerto for Two pianos
(1946-7) and the Opera The Wind Remains. The fact that he
is not forgotten as a composer proves the recent recordings of his
chamber music...
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