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A hundred camels in the courtyard / Paul Bowles.
LIBRA PS3503.O855 H8 1986 copy 3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Morocco.
- Tales.
- Morocco.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Light Books, 1986.
- Summary:
- These are 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 kif, 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.
- Contents:
- A friend of the world
- He of the assembly
- The story of Lahcen and Idir
- The wind at Beni Midar.
- ISBN:
- 0872860027
- 9780872860025
- OCLC:
- 15687460
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