Bowles, Paul (Vol. 19) - Introduction

Bowles, Paul 1910–

Bowles is an expatriate American novelist, short story writer, poet, translator, and composer who lives in Morocco and travels widely. An existentialist who probes what Theodore Solotaroff terms the "abysses and furies of the human psyche" and emerges with an empty vision, Bowles has been compared to Poe for the Gothic mood of his fiction and to Conrad for his plots in which moral anarchy results when civilized people enter a primitive environment. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 1.)