Jane Bowles Livres

On the occasion of her centenary, Library of America presents the most complete edition ever published of Jane Bowles's incomparable fiction, along with an extensive selection of her frank, vivid and funny letters. The collection includes the novel Two Serious Ladies (1943) and the play In The Summer House (1954), as well as five short stories, two song lyrics, a play and a nonfiction sketch. It also features fragments from two abandoned novels, a section of Two Serious Ladies cut from an earlier draft, four abandoned stories, one unfinished play and one autobiographical fragment

'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf' ALI SMITH Seven short stories by the author of TWO SERIOUS LADIES

"Christina Goering, eccentric and adventurous, and Frieda Copperfield, anxious but enterprising, are two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves. Old friends, each will take a surprising path in search of salvation: during a visit to Panama, Mrs. Copperfield abandons her husband, finding solace in a relationship with a teenage prostitute; while Miss Goering, a wealthy spinster, pursues sainthood via sordid encounters with the basest of men. At the end the two women meet again, each radically altered by her experience"--Provided by publisher.

Dramatický text jedné z nejvýznamnějších představitelek moderní americké literatury.

Hrsg. von Hans Christian Meiser, enthält Geschichten von Oates, Joyce Carol; Bowles, Jane; und Barnes, Djuna. 286 Seiten.

Ausgewählt u. mit Anmerkungen von Dormagen, Adelheid Vorwort von Roditi, Edouard 295 S.

In den vorliegenden Briefen zeichnet Jane Bowles ein eindrucksvolles Bild von ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit einer Welt, deren Maßstäbe, Rituale und Gesetze ihren eigenen Visionen fern sind. Fast unmerklich wird klar, dass eins und eins nicht zwei sind, dass Widersprüche nebeneinander existieren und dass das Leben überhaupt sehr absurde Seiten hat.