The Dream at the End of the World: Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier
- ISBN-10
- 0060922672
- ISBN-13
- 9780060922672
- Category
- Americans
- Pages
- 381
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-05
- Publisher
- Perennial
- Author
- Michelle Green
Description
The impressive account of the amazing characters--Paul and Jane Bowles, Truman Capote, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, among others--who gathered during the 1940s and '50s in Tangier, Morocco: a city where drugs, sex, and just about everything seemed possible and permissible. Photo insert.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Dreaming the End of the World: Apocalypse as a Rite of Passage
By Michael Ortiz HillWhat might be revealed by the more than 100 "apocalyptic" dreams collected by the author?
-
Drowning Practice: A Novel
By Mike MeginnisProfoundly moving, filled with tenderness, and brought to life by a curious, sprawling imagination, Drowning Practice is the story of a mother and daughter trying to save each other’s lives at what could be the end of the world One night, ...
-
Jungian Dream Interpretation: A Handbook of Theory and Practice
By James Albert HallWhat is tacit at one point may be focal at another . The tacit compartment of knowledge is similar to the unconscious but not exactly equivalent , for one can consciously choose to use something in a tacit manner , as when speech ...
-
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History
By Jay RubensteinTo justify this, its writers and thinkers turned to ancient prophecies, and specifically to one of the most enigmatic passages in the Bible the dream King Nebuchadnezzar has in the Book of Daniel, of a statue with a golden head and feet of ...
-
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT ...
-
The Lathe Of Heaven
By Ursula K. Le GuinThe Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity’s self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself.
-
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
By Haruki MurakamiWhat emerges is simultaneously cooler than zero and unaffectedly affecting, a hilariously funny and deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind. From the Trade Paperback edition.
-
Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments
By Kevin Hart, Yvonne SherwoodAbove all, writing must believe, which is why one cannot be an unbeliever and a writer: faith is required by acts of writing that open out into a giving to be read that is always, also, "a leaving to be desired."32 It may be symptomatic ...
-
Revelation
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions.
-
Pandemic Dreams
By Deirdre BarrettAnd dreams have just begun to consider the big picture: how society may change. The book offers guidance on how we can best utilize our newly supercharged dream lives to aid us through the crisis and beyond.