A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard

Nonfiction, History, World History, Americas, United States, Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense
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Author: Paul Bowles ISBN: 9781789123654
Publisher: Valmy Publishing Publication: January 13, 2019
Imprint: Valmy Publishing Language: English
Author: Paul Bowles
ISBN: 9781789123654
Publisher: Valmy Publishing
Publication: January 13, 2019
Imprint: Valmy Publishing
Language: English

First published in 1962, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard by American author Paul Bowles is a book comprising four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act it out in reality. Idir’s victory over Lahcen is the classical story of the kif-smoker’s ability to outwit the drinker. Driss the soldier, with aid of kit, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them the kif-pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others, but above all with themselves.

“His work is art. At his best Paul Bowles has no peer.”—Time

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First published in 1962, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard by American author Paul Bowles is a book comprising four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act it out in reality. Idir’s victory over Lahcen is the classical story of the kif-smoker’s ability to outwit the drinker. Driss the soldier, with aid of kit, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them the kif-pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others, but above all with themselves.

“His work is art. At his best Paul Bowles has no peer.”—Time

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