I can’t fault Paul Bowles for sincerity though apparently he spent much of his life being bohemian in just this way, spawning many imitators, and died poor in Tangier in 1999. I kind of enjoyed this book while reading it, but in retrospect I guess I sort of hated it. His wife then loses her mind and ends up getting raped and voluntarily joining a harem. He is too bohemian to have bothered to be vaccinated, so this is richly deserved. Word Count: 262 The Sheltering Sky is a novel with a number of themes available for. The protagonist dies of typhoid half way through. by Paul Bowles Start Free Trial Themes PDF Cite Share Last Updated on June 19, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. Mine was hair-raising in its own way (how much is too much wine at the all-inclusive?) but theirs was pretty intense too (at one point the protagonist complains about being offered a seventeen year old sex worker (i.e., trafficked child), because she is ‘probably at least twenty-five’). I read it while in Morocco, so it was an interesting parallel kind of vacation. Three vaguely artsy Europeans parade around Morocco in the late 1940s, sleeping with each other and others, staying in really horrible rural hotels, and exploring their existential dread. This is a novel about what happens when you take bohemianism that bit too far.
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