I recently finished The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles Read…
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I recently finished The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Read and really enjoyed some of his short stories. Finally got around to reading this and so glad I did.
I won't spoil anything for anyone yet to read it - but my god, what a fucking masterpiece of a book. Sad and frustrating and so vivid and surreal.
On the surface it's about three Americans travelling through French north Africa in the years after world war 2, the people they meet and the things they see. It's kind of deceptively simple - the prose, the travelogue aspect to it - but it goes so much deeper than all that, getting into existentialism, mortality, alienation, dependence in a way that just melted my brain and made me contemplate life.
The end - the last quarter or so of this book just...sticks in my mind, and I don't think I'll ever forget it.
Cannot recommend this enough.
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Read and really enjoyed some of his short stories. Finally got around to reading this and so glad I did.
I won't spoil anything for anyone yet to read it - but my god, what a fucking masterpiece of a book. Sad and frustrating and so vivid and surreal.
On the surface it's about three Americans travelling through French north Africa in the years after world war 2, the people they meet and the things they see. It's kind of deceptively simple - the prose, the travelogue aspect to it - but it goes so much deeper than all that, getting into existentialism, mortality, alienation, dependence in a way that just melted my brain and made me contemplate life.
The end - the last quarter or so of this book just...sticks in my mind, and I don't think I'll ever forget it.
Cannot recommend this enough.
#entertainment
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