The Sheltering Sky

There is no doubt that this novel creative work carried the Bulls to the ranks of adult writers. It brings together critics in the West as a masterpiece of literature Alakazhoteka. They offer the Maghreb and its features much ambience of love and admiration. But the human person before the Western values ​​remained the focus of the event, bringing the collection of the author between the western and eastern Pacific personal absent other living elements. Reminiscent of the atmosphere drawn by the Bulls with stories of One Thousand and One Nights or paintings Orientalists depicting Moroccan society in the nineteenth century. It offers the world of the East as Europeans and Americans like to see him. He admits this, he has repeatedly stated that he writes them more than it writes for Moroccans. However, the writings of the Bulls appear closely place and its elements and boldness in sounding the depths of the Moroccan Sahara. We do not want to claim that this novel is a biography of Paul Bowles but, from the first moment, we see a great similarity between him and the hero of the novel Port and his wife Kate. As the novel begins with a dream he saw Port does not remember the details, as the Bulls defended the visit to Morocco and write a novel about a dream he saw in his youth. The Port was not a tourist but uncommon sense of the Bulls voyager same model. Bowles says in his novel The tourists rushing to return home after a few weeks, but travelers do not belong to any more than a place of belonging to the place to the next, and Hoentql slowly at intervals extending for years from one place to another place of the world. The incursion was the heroes of the novel in the desert of Morocco Arthala in the psychological worlds of each of them at the same time.