by Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, Paul Bowles · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783293200227
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«Ein Leben voller Fallgruben», oral narrative by Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, recorded by Paul Bowles, in paperback, in German.
The text emerges from the North African oral tradition and reproduces the voice of a narrator remembering his life in Morocco and Tangier: a journey of adversities, small traps and daily struggles to survive, framed in Moroccan culture and society.
German edition of 1992, No. 22 in the Unionsverlag Taschenbücher series; the account was recorded and translated into English by Paul Bowles and rendered into German by Anne Ruth Strauss.
Reading for those interested in the oral literature of the Maghreb and in Paul Bowles's role as translator and bridge between cultures.
Paul Frederic Bowles was an American composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.
