A Gentle Prey

"Too much attention is paid to the writer, and too little to his work. What difference does it make who he is and what he feels, if he’s just a machine for spreading ideas? In reality he doesn’t exist—he’s a zero, a piece of nothing. A spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main task is to transmit information across the boundary of life, back into death." — Paul Bowles

A collection of Paul Bowles’s stories.

Contents:

At the Water’s Edge, story. Translation: Erik Steinblatt

Echo, story. Translation: Erik Steinblatt

A Far-Off Case, story. Translation: Vasily Kondratiev

A Passage into Corazon, story. Translation: Erik Steinblatt

The Scorpion, story. Translation: Maksim Nemtsov

Under the Sky, story. Translation: S. Khrenov

In Paso-Rojo, story. Translation: Erik Steinblatt

You Are Not Me, story. Translation: M. Nemtsov

Notes from the Cold Cape, story. Translation: Erik Steinblatt

Pastor Dau in Takata, story. Translation: Maksim Nemtsov

Tea on the Mountain, story. Translation: Maksim Nemtsov

How Many Nights, story. Translation: S. Khrenov

The Round Valley, story. Translation: Maksim Nemtsov

Tender Prey, story. Translation: Vasily Kondratiev