Letter From Tangier (Paul Bowles)

Question 1

Letter from Tangier: What does Bowles first open in his letter about Tangier?

Answer 1

He opens with his belief that it has changed since his 1931 arrival.

Question 2

Letter from Tangier: What is one of the changes Bowles references?

Answer 2

“Instead of municipal bus, you took a carriage with a torn beige canopy”

Question 3

Letter from Tangier (1954): What is the Sad Truth?

Answer 3

Tangier is in a serious slump.

Question 4

Letter from Tangier: What does Bowles call the the participants of the 1952 riots?

Answer 4

“Urchins”

Question 5

Letter from Tangier: What does Bowles say about Tangierines noticing cultural absence

Answer 5

“I doubt that the absence of cultural life is noticed by many Tangerines”

Question 6

Letter from Tangier: Why does Bowles choose to stay in Tangier?

Answer 6

He chooses to stay because Tangier “has a strange and only partially explained fascination for me.”

Question 7

How does Bowles believe people are taking the current (1954) situation in Tangier?

Answer 7

He peoples the people are having difficulty in taking the situation seriously because the city is so intimate.