![]() "Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home." ![]() Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another." The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. ![]() "He did not think of himself as a tourist he was a traveler. But overall, at this point, I feel I built up too much expectation about this book and it did not deliver. Just ask Simone de Beauvoir)įor what is worth, I did enjoy Bowles’ prose and I know certain passages will stay with me: the tree girls becoming sand, Port’s delirium, descriptions of the desert. (This seems to be true of most existentialists of the time. I should also add that the character of Kit made me think that Paul Bowles had arrived at “existentialism” without ever going through “women’s lib”. ![]() I also could see in their “search of meaning” the seeds that led to the cultural changes in the 1960’s, as if these characters were in the front line of the thousands that followed backpacking foreign lands, and trying out at a sexual revolution that at the end was more contriving than liberating. ![]() I could see how the characters aloofness and sense o displacement in the world would appeal to readers in a post WWII world, but personally I had trouble engaging with them and their story. My first impression was that this was a good book that had not aged well. ![]()
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