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Be ready
It's short but requires you really be thinking existentially when reading it or shortly after. The story itself is good and very unusual. I'm not a fan of plays but it was written very well given the content. I loved all the characters and how it played out. If you're interested in a good, deep play- this is it! You're in hell with these people- that in itself is a doorway to so many interesting questions and the answers aren't always what you expect. ... Read more

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Another World
Mrabet teeters like an innocent child on the edge of paranoia and madness.These disturbed visions, bubbling up from the very hashish inspired dreams that Mrabet describes, provide insight into the bizarre world of Tangier and the Rif mountains where western values merge in an unsettling medley with ancient Berber traditions anchored in superstition, hallucination, and deceit.Bowles and his intrinsic understanding of this bizarre culture have brought us a most valuable translation that otherwise might never have reached western minds.

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 largely revolving around the use of kif (or hashish asAmericans would call it)It is a delightful collection of tales.Mrabetis a talented writer.He draws up some tantalizing tales that delve intothe positive and negative of this state of mind.It is a good introductoryvolume for the novice (admittedly I am a novice myself) of Morroccanliterature.Mr Bowles did us a great favor in translating numerous worksby Mrabet.Let us pray to Allah that City Lights finds it in their heartsto reissue these fine collections of exotic literature. ... Read more

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Given the legal, political, economic and social similarities that exist, comparisons between the European Union (EU) and Canada can prove instructive. This volume introduces the rationale for comparing Canada and the EU and reviews the political initiatives that have been undertaken to forge links between the two. Taking the political and economic structure used by the EU, it compares this structure to the Canadian model, at both the federal/supranational level and the local government level. Using various disciplinary approaches and case studies, specific policy areas are used to illustrate these comparisons, and several of the papers in the collection extend these comparisons to the NAFTA level. A highly useful reference tool, Crossing the Atlantic will intrigue and inform an interdisciplinary and inter-regional studies audience. ... Read more

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A major figure in 20th-century arts and letters, Paul Bowles was also an accomplished literary translator who cultivated a special interest in European and Latin American surrealist authors. She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her gathers Bowles' short translations into a single volume, reflecting his love for language as well as his painstaking efforts to craft superior translations. Bowles's taste is as always impeccable, but also prescient. For example, in 1945, Jorge Luis Borges was unknown in the United States, having published only a few stories in South American journals. Given the editorship of an issue of View, Bowles selected "Las Ruinas Circulares" for inclusion, introducing this seminal author to Western readers and arguably initiating the Borges craze that began in the 1960s. Other important writings in this collection include "Hebdomeros" by Giorgio de Chirico and "White Man's Son" by Denise Moran. ... Read more

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International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structures, class interests and international hierarchies. These change over time and how countries respond to them has critical implications for their citizen’s well-being.

In this book, the history of trade in Australia, Canada and Mexico is analysed.  Trade agreements are analysed in detail to explore the new forms that dependence and subordination have taken. Arguing that the free trade agreements are significantly biased in favour of the United States, the contributors analyse how each of the three countries are being subject to specific forms of re-peripheralisation and examine possible alternatives for a progressive future based on an integration in the global economy which enhances, rather than limits, democracy and social justice. By providing an historical and critical account of trade policy in the three countries, the book provides a welcome antidote to the ahistorical accounts of free trade supporters.

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A Surreal Moroccan Folk-Horror Tale
Of all the third-world writers Paul Bowles translated, Mohammed Mrabet enjoyed the most success-- perhaps because he managed to stay on Bowles' good side the longest. But Mrabet also has an amazingly fertile imagination that surpassed Bowles' at times.He can seemlessly incorporate elements of Western narrative innovations into his work, as he proves with The Big Mirror. Much like Mrabet's other novels and collections of stories, it's a portrait of Morocco in the 60's and 70's that's grounded in ancient ritual and myth, but in this case Mrabet seems to have tackled feelings of doom and anxiety and horror much more openly than ever before. This is the most "Western" of Mrabet's work, I would say, and perhaps also the most powerful because it so clearly walks the tightrope between cultures, between times, between logic and the inexplicable, between brutality and love. It's chilling and surreal as Jim Thompson's novel Savage Night or the juicy parts of Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
I'm telling you, track this one down. ... Read more

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Fiction. In these seven new stories Paul Bowles ranges widely in time, in form, and in geographic area-from Massachusetts to Morocco, from 1932 to the 1970s. Portraits and contemporary scenes mix conventional narration with experimental monologues, and the volume concludes with a tale presented as six letters written to a bitter, dying man. The formal versatility is as arresting as the content. The whole is proof (if it were needed) that, as Gore Vidal remarks, Bowle's art is as disturbing as ever. ... Read more