'She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her' (1985)
Translations by Paul Bowles

About the book

A collection of 16 stories translated into English by Paul Bowles:

1)   'The Passageway of Judiciary Pleasures' by André Pieyre de Mandiargues
2)   Minute Stories by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
3)   Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico
4)   Berber Tales, compiled by Si Lakhdar and E. Laoust
5)   Chewing Gum Land by Ramon Beteta
6)   Proceeding in the Case of Gabino Chan
7)   Shrinking the Heads by Bertrand Flornoy
8)   She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her by Jean Ferry
9)   Stéphane, the White Man's Son by Denise Moran
10) The Lamp's Stories by Paul Colinet
11) Prose Poems by Paul Magritte
12) The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges
13) The Story of Sage Earth-Fish, from the Popul Buj
14) New Introduction to the Pebble by Francis Ponge
15) Visions of the Comte de Permission by Bluet d'Acheres
16) The Buzzard by Ramon Sender

(Note: Story 12 - 'The Circular Ruins' has been widely published by the three main translators of Jorge Luis Borges: Anthony Kerrigan, Anthony Bonner and James E. Irby

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Available Editions:

First Edition, USA:

'She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her'
Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, 1985
Original boards with mounted illustration on front cover.
First edition. 100 handbound copies signed by Paul Bowles.


'She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her'
Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, 1985
First Trade Edition. Issued in wrappers.
First Edition.




Dedicated to the life and work of Paul and Jane Bowles
©The International Paul Bowles Society, 2000