A visit to the Interzone
Paul Bowles and Tangiers: A Literary Route
Last March 26th a group of students of 1st Bachillerato, Ms Icíar and I had the naïve intention of trying to feel what is left from the 50s and 60s atmosphere on the Interzone in Tangiers. We had been working on a rough research in class some days before, in which we shared some core ideas on the so determinant political and social changes in the sixties, a decade in which civil society revolutions had a so prominent role. Literature trends reflect the best, or at least it used to do so, social scene changes, and we discovered in our research that some of the most relevant actors of this scene and thought change in the 60s, had been living, writing and producing here in Tangier. The so-called literary group, which turned into school of thought, the Beatniks, had also acquired part of their ideas living in here, a place which W. Borroughs named the Interzone. It happened to be that, Paul Bowles, an American writer who was living in Tangier, had also a great influence in this group, in the search of their Tangerine Dream.
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