Millicent Dillon – You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles
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At the center of Millicent Dillon’s provocatively titled You Are Not I burns a mystery. The ever elusive Paul Bowles indirectly captured Dillon’s attention. When in Tangier, Morocco, at work on her biography of Jane Bowles ( A Little Original Sin , 1981), she was told repeatedly by friends of the Bowles that she bore an uncanny physical resemblance to Jane. For Dillon, this burgeoned into a compulsion, which she found “…unsettling, as if I am overstepping a line, violating that most rudimentary law of biography–not to confuse oneself with one’s subject.” Alas, in spite of the strong declaration implicit in the biography’s title, one is made uncomfortably aware of the author’s wavering boundaries. “To be a biographer,” Dillon confesses, “meant that I was in the grip of an obsession.” Rejecting chronology as the chief organizing element of her biography, Dillon interweaves the “facts”–mundane and extraordinary–of Bowles’s life with both of her Moroccan journeys (the Jane project of 1977; the Paul project of ’91), constructing his portrait through their conversations and her subsequent reflections. Such a prismatic approach indeed celebrates Bowles’s obliquity as a subject.
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