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Let It Come Down

A Novel

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In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.

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Published in 1952, this cutting-edge novel is at once a character study, a thriller and a travelogue that also includes occasional psychedelic sequences. In addition, many readers may feel that the rapid succession of incongruous episodes even gives it a comic touch, in « Tristram Shandy » fashion.

It is set in Tangiers just after World War II when the city still constituted an international zone that attracted a flurry of shady foreigners.

In fact, all the novel’s characters appear amoral, selfish and deceitful.

According to the author’s prologue written in 1980, they are based on real persons with whom he socialized in Tangiers.

Indeed, he claims the main character to be a caricature of himself. The novel describes him leading a totally aimless life and seeming to drift rudderless from one experience to another. Yet, the reader can hardly resist the impulse to root for him and to hope that he will find a way out of his troubles rather than sinking deeper into them.

Though no doubt a result of the author’s intentions, many strings are left dangling in the end, what some may consider disappointing.

Not for the Faint-Hearted!

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