Tangier: A Literary Guide For Travellers (Literary Guides for

Tangier: A Literary Guide For Travellers (Literary Guides for Travellers)

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe and overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts, and writers for centuriesâ€•men and women working out at the edge of literary forms, breaking through artistic borders.

This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time. Particularly in the past century, the results were some of the most incendiary and influential books of our time, the most prominent being Burroughs' Naked Lunch and Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky. The list of "edge" writers who were drawn to Tangier is long, among them Ibn Battuta, Samuel Pepys, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Walter Harris, Jean Genet, Paul and Jane Bowles, Tennessee Williams, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Patricia Highsmith, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Chester, Joe Orton, and Mohamed Choukri.

This is a book that captures the unconventional, multilayered story of literary Tangier and is a must-have for travelers, armchair adventurers, and literature buffs, particularly aficionados of the Beat generation writers and the poets who made the city their home.
Country USA
Brand I. B. Tauris & Company
Manufacturer I.B. Tauris
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781788312837
ReleaseDate 2018-08-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781788312837

Country	USA
Brand	I. B. Tauris & Company
Manufacturer	I.B. Tauris
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781788312837
ReleaseDate	2018-08-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781788312837

Tangier: A Literary Guide For Travellers (Literary Guides for Travellers)

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