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Paul Bowles - The Complete Outsider

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..This nails the guy as the legend would have us believe, paul down in the Medina shooting it with the hustlers & up on the roof terrace enjoying a little kif at sunset...A true trailblazer if ever there was one!....Radical s@!t....

Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider is a DVD documentary and biography of influential 20th century novelist Paul Bowles, perhaps best known for writing "The Sheltering Sky". Filmed in Morocco and featuring exclusive interviews with well-known cultural figures Allen Ginsberg and Ned Rorem, Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider explores Bowles' development as a novelist and composer, his marriage to writer Jane Bowles, and his amorphous sexuality. Bowles himself speaks about his life, writing, music, his use of drugs, and his friends, including W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Aaron Copland, Gertrude Stein, and Ginsberg. Rare archival footage and interviews round out The Complete Outsider as a "must-have" for readers, students, and scholars of Paul Bowles' works.

I have always been fascinated with Morocco and have lived there now for nearly eight years. Bowles provides us in his writing and in this documentary of his life an insight into what Morocco was like in days gone by. It must have been a fascinating place! I realize that the country has made tremendous steps forward over the past 42 years since I first set foot in Morocco, but you have to wonder if something has not been lost over the years. As countries become more modern there is a certain quality and uniqueness captured in Bowles' writings and experiences that seems to go by the wayside. I'm sure it's all progress and I doubt many Moroccans would want to go back to the past of their grandparents, but I thoroughly enjoy reading those experiences of people who lived in Morocco in days gone by and who chronicled their lives and thoughts for everyone to share in and learn from.