| Title | : | A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Paul Bowles |
| Release | : | 2019-01-13 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | U.S. History, Books, History, World History, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Mysteries & Thrillers |
| Size | : | 722169 |
| 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 |
