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Jane Bowles (1) (1917–1973)

Autor(a) de Two Serious Ladies

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Auer, Jane Sydney (birth name)
Data de nascimento
1917-02-22
Data de falecimento
1973-05-04
Local de enterro
San Miguel Cemetery, Malaga, Spain
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA (birth)
Local de nascimento
New York, New York, USA
Local de falecimento
Malaga, Spain
Locais de residência
Woodmere, New York, USA
Leysin, Switzerland
New York, New York, USA
Tangier, Morocco
Malaga, Spain
Educação
boarding school, Switzerland
Ocupação
Playwright
novelist
short story writer
Relacionamentos
Bowles, Paul (husband)
Pequena biografia
Jane Bowles was born into an affluent Jewish family in New York City and grew up on Long Island. As a teenager, she developed tuberculosis of the knee, and was taken by her mother for treatment to a sanatorium in Leysin, Switzerland, where she attended school. She developed a passion for literature and on her return to New York, gravitated to the bohemians and artists in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. In 1938, she married Paul Bowles. Each had inherited some money, and they pooled their resources, allowing them to wander through South America, North Africa, Europe, and Asia while writing and composing music. In 1943, her novel Two Serious Ladies was published. They settled in Tangier, Morocco in 1948, where Jane wrote short stories and a play called In The Summer House, with music composed by her husband. It was performed on Broadway in 1953 to mixed reviews. Jane Bowles drank heavily and used drugs. She had a cerebral hemorrhage with serious loss of vision in 1957 at age 40. Despite various treatments in England and the USA, her mental and physical health declined over the next 16 years. She died at a psychiatric clinic in Málaga, Spain. Her collected works were published with an introduction by Truman Capote.

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Doe jij dat ook wel eens: bij een boekhandel in de rekken gaan neuzen welke boeken ze hebben staan van auteurs van wie je meent alles te hebben? Zo vond ik Plain Plaisures van Jane Bowles, née Auer, een boekje zo dun dat je er gemakkelijk over kijkt. Het staat vol alleenstaande vrouwen van middelbare leeftijd - oude vrijsters zouden we vroeger gezegd hebben - zusters meestal, die onderling kibbelen en zich onzeker voelen. Als ze in Marokko wonen, kopen ze taartjes voor onbekende en gaan met hen mee, tot ze angstig weer weglopen. Met Jane weet je nooit goed wat je te wachten staat. Het eindigt, wat verrassend, met een coming of age-verhaal: op een dag is je kindertijd voorbij zonder dat je het gemerkt hebt.
Heb ik nu alles van Jane Bowles in het rek staan?
… (mais)
 
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brver | 1 outra resenha | Mar 28, 2023 |
A story of two women which is touted as witty and humorous. I found the two characters to be impulsive self-absorbed users of others that I could not empathize with. Essentially all of the characters seemed pathetic.
 
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snash | outras 9 resenhas | Jan 9, 2023 |
Amazing! So loved reading this book- i read it at lunch at work and i looked forward to going back to work so i could read for another half hour (i know i could have taken it home, but that isn't my way). The two ladies are: Ms. Goering and Mrs. Copperfield. Their stories barely touch and barely come together at the end, leaving one (that is, me) a bit lost at the "big picture" but who cares- we go with it and such a pleasant journey. Ms. Goering is introduced as an oddball, religious 10 year old- we next see her when she is in her 20s and another lady (Ms. Gamelon) who has heard of Ms. Goering comes to visit - and, of course, she stays with her after that. Ms. Goering goes to a party one day and meets an oddball dandy-ish man and goes home with him (in her spirit of adventure or religious trial?) and meets up with the father and she charms them both (father and son). Later, she leads them both (sort of) to an isolated island and a barren freezing cold house to .... suffer? i'm not really sure. Ms. Gamelon, the father and son and Ms. Goering. She decides to visit the town (via the train and ferry) and slums around with a couple of losers from the bar there. Finally Ms. Gamelon shacks up with the son and the father goes back to the wife. O well. Mrs. Copperfield was at the party with Ms. Goering earlier and then she goes off to Panama for a vacation with her spouse. She quickly diverts to a lowlife bar and becomes completely enamored of a local prostitute and a slum lord hotel keep lady. She loves it there and tells her spouse that she'll be staying but eventually they return back to NYC (i guess?) - Mrs. Copperfield with the young gal. We did get to have Mrs. C. and Ms. G meet near the end which is nice. So- what's so great? The spirit, the language, the way the sentences and scenes roll together like a happy, but drunken and wind rocked boat ... I know (because i am told) the book is all about lesbianism and women finding their freedom. That's fine and no doubt true, but i think it is limiting to focus on that. It is about a rolling freedom and openness to life - the desire to step out of preset molds and live. Yes, a bit much, i know- but i loved this book and i wish there were move of it - and more like them.… (mais)
 
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apende | outras 9 resenhas | Jul 12, 2022 |
Wonderfully odd and oblique. Wanderingly confusing.
 
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cattermune | outras 4 resenhas | Dec 26, 2021 |

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