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 ...
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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.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Introduction by Bowles. Octavo. viii, 97pp. Papercovered boards with paper spine label and cover illustration. Fine in somewhat rubbed, very good or better unprinted acetate dust jacket with short tears at the spine ends. One of 100 copies handbound in boards and Signed by Bowles on the limitation page (of 126 total). Contains Bowles' translations of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges ("The Circular Ruins"), Francis Ponge, Paul Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, and others.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Translated with an Introduction by Bowles. Octavo. viii, 97pp. Papercovered boards with paper spine label and cover illustration. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dust jacket with short tears at the spine ends. One of 100 copies handbound in boards and Signed by Bowles on the limitation page (of 126 total). Contains Bowles' translations of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges ("The Circular Ruins"), Francis Ponge, Paul Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, and others.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Translated with an Introduction by Bowles. Octavo. viii, 97pp. Papercovered boards with paper spine label and cover illustration. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dust jacket with short tears at the spine ends. One of 26 lettered handbound copies in boards and Signed by Bowles on the limitation page (of 126 total). Contains Bowles' translations of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges ("The Circular Ruins"), Francis Ponge, Paul Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, and others.