![]() ![]() The threatening nature of the Other is shown very early in the travel, when Port and Kit come across a huge mechanical crane that beggars inhabit. The characters’ trip seems doomed from the beginning: several elements indicate that the world they will explore is not hospitable. This version of a travel novel usually takes place in oriental surroundings and is profoundly linked to Western consciousness. Thus, he does not present the protagonist as “conquering the wilderness and their own self,” but as becoming “mad in the wilderness” (Zidan & Al-Ghalith, 2020, p. ![]() Nevertheless, Bowles erases the self-affirmation the protagonist usually acquires in this type of narration and, in turn, creates a version of travel that is not triumphant. This should not come as a surprise since the image of travel embodied by a road has always been commonplace in American literature. The novel is about travellers and the phenomenon of travelling. In this way, Bowles was the ideal author for this kind of enterprise since he was a well-known author in refined artistic circles in the United States. After World War II, the entertainment business made small but loyal audiences the perfect target for products branded as art rather than enjoyment. The Sheltering Sky reached immediate commercial success at a particular moment in American literary history, “when both high and mass-culture institutions began to realise the salability of the idea of the avant-garde or art novel” (Brier, 2006, p. ![]()
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