Days A Tangier Diary
“Days: A Tangier Diary” by Paul Bowles, published by Harper Collins on June 13, 2006, is a first edition work comprising 128 pages. This book presents a journal kept by Bowles between 1987 and 1989, capturing the daily events of his life in Tangier. It offers insights not only into his meals, conversations, and health concerns but also into the broader context of his artistic life, showcasing his observations in a new medium.
Readers will find a blend of personal reflections and vivid descriptions, including encounters with the local environment and significant events, such as a violent episode in a marketplace and the extravagant celebration of Malcolm Forbes’s seventieth birthday. Bowles’s writing is characterized by a refreshing informality and clear-sightedness, providing a candid portrait of his experiences and the unique atmosphere of late twentieth-century Tangier. This edition invites readers to explore the intricacies of daily life through the eyes of a master observer.
Official synopsis Publisher
Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing informality, clear-sightedness, and passages of exquisite prose, these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider, a brutal episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes’s seventieth birthday party. In Days, a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence, giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in late twentieth-century Tangier.
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