Un The Au Sahara

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Flight. cover printed very light fold upper flat corner. int. costs. An American couple Port and Kit Moresly, accompanied by their friend Tunner, travel across North Africa from the coast to the Sahara. The Moreslys, although married for eleven years, are far from getting along. During the trip Kit has a brief fling with Tunner; but this tormented woman only gains an additional guilt complex. Port meanwhile died of typhoid fever. Kit feels responsible and guilty for this death. She runs away from her past. A caravan takes him to Dakar. The young woman seized by a kind of sensual delirium discovers carnal love with a young Arab then with a black man whom she begins to love desperately. Little by little his mind goes haywire. She is fascinated by Africa, its prodigality and its decay, its vitality and decadence. This is what expressing the derision of the title which parodies Fromentin. In Paul Bowles there is something of DH Lawrence in the humanity of the characters, their perfect solitude, their inner unease. With the addition of an acute understanding of Africa

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