Jane Bowles (1) (1917–1973)
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- Andere Namen
- Auer, Jane Sydney (birth name)
- Geburtstag
- 1917-02-22
- Todestag
- 1973-05-04
- Begräbnisort
- San Miguel Cemetery, Malaga, Spain
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA (birth)
- Geburtsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Sterbeort
- Malaga, Spain
- Wohnorte
- Woodmere, New York, USA
Leysin, Switzerland
New York, New York, USA
Tangier, Morocco
Malaga, Spain - Ausbildung
- boarding school, Switzerland
- Berufe
- Playwright
novelist
short story writer - Beziehungen
- Bowles, Paul (husband)
- Kurzbiographie
- 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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Emotional need is shameful, according to the novel, Goering is a chillier temperament and more calculating than Mrs. Copperfield. "I really have no sense of shame," said Miss Goering "and I think your own sense of shame is terribly exaggerated besides being a terrific sap on your energies," she says to Andy as she leaves him for Ben who isn't fond of talking.
There is a religious aspect to the novel in that it is bookended by baptisms, at first when Goering was a child and she baptizes her sister's friend and the other when Mrs. Copperfield is held in the ocean by Pacifica who is teaching her to swim. Both ladies are afraid of water. No shame says the novel. We know very little of Goering, where she got her money, what motivates her other than a need to overcome her fear. Nor do we have any background on Mrs. Copperfield or her marriage, but she points out "I hate religion in other people" and bellies up to the bar.
In the final pages, when the two ladies, old friends, reunite they no longer admire each other.
"Certainly, I am nearer to becoming a saint," reflected Miss Goering," but is it possible that a part of me hidden from my sight is piling sin upon sin as fast as Mrs. Copperfield?" The final line, "this latter possibility Miss Goering thought to be of considerable interest but of no great importance." She doesn't care because her interest is not sin, not shame, but overcoming her own fears. Otherwise, her actions are meaningless.
The writing is skilled, full of surprises, many of the conversations unexpected and the characters original and singular but always the story spurred me forward to find out what was next. Except for some short stories and a play, this is the only book Bowles, married to the composer/writer Paul Bowles, wrote before her early death from cancer at 56.
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