The Lemon
 A Bowles/Mrabet Classic: Paul Bowles discovered Mrabet when the latter was a young man living in Tangiers and the former was already an accomplished musician and writer. The elder Bowles took Mrabet under his wing and translated/edited several of his [... more]
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Love with a Few Hairs
All told, it's brilliantly told: Mrabet is a Moroccan man who literally tells stories. The American author Paul Bowles (THE SHELTERING SKY, etc.) tapes these stories and translates them into English for us. Lucky us. This debut novel (published when [... more]
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Chocolate Creams and Dollars
A priceless peice of moroccan magic: Mrabet is a fantastic story teller.So good, in fact , that when his books first came out critics claimed they were written by Paul Bowles himself. Which isn't true, Bowles merely recorded and then translated the [... more]
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M'Hashish
Morroccan tales: Paul Bowles was a great writer who also did us the service of translating many Morroccan writings. One of these writers is Mohammed Mrabet. This little title Mhashish was put out by the City Lights label many years ago. It contains tales [... more]
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The Chest
A folkloristic insight into ancient attitudes.: This book is a collection of stories told to Paul Bowles by a supposedly illiterate Moroccan with a great store of oral literature in his head. These stories are presented as representative examples of [... more]
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Look and Move On
A life of sin and magic set in the shadows of Morocco.: This is a fantastic book, Mrabet is a master story teller. His lines are raw and simple, chisled directly into the paper. At times the style reminded me of Hemmingway. His works have been confused [... more]
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The Boy Who Set the Fire
Pure Storytelling: Paul Bowles tape recorded Mrabet and other Moroccan storytellers back in the 50s, then edited and translated the tales to give to the Western reading public. The result is a large body of Arabic literature that would have pased into [... more]
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The lemon;: A novel
A Bowles/Mrabet Classic: Paul Bowles discovered Mrabet when the latter was a young man living in Tangiers and the former was already an accomplished musician and writer. The elder Bowles took Mrabet under his wing and translated/edited several of his [... more]
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