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A Distant Episode is a short story by Paul Bowles. Written in 1945, it was first published in the Partisan Review (January–February, 1947) and republished in New Directions in Prose and Poetry, #10 in 1948. It is also the title piece in a 1988 collection of Bowles's short stories, A Distant Episode: Selected Stories by Ecco Press. “A Distant Episode” is widely regarded as one of Bowles’s finest stories and “a true masterpiece of short fiction.” (en) |
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“Shock is a sine qua non to the story. You don’t teach a thing like that unless you are able, in some way, to make the reader understand what the situation would be like to him. And that involves shock.”—Paul Bowles on “A Distant Episode” in a 1971 interview with Oliver Evans in the Mediterranean Review (en) “Paul Bowles's obsessive subject is the tragic, even fatal mistakes that Westerners so commonly make in their misguided and often presumptuous encounters with the mysteries of a foreign culture…’A Distant Episode’ is a cautionary tale of the horrors that can ensue when a stranger in a foreign land knows too little--and assumes too much.”—Literary critic Francine Prose in Harper’s Magazine. (en) |
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A Distant Episode is a short story by Paul Bowles. Written in 1945, it was first published in the Partisan Review (January–February, 1947) and republished in New Directions in Prose and Poetry, #10 in 1948. It is also the title piece in a 1988 collection of Bowles's short stories, A Distant Episode: Selected Stories by Ecco Press. “A Distant Episode” is widely regarded as one of Bowles’s finest stories and “a true masterpiece of short fiction.” (en) |
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