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Books : Literature & Fiction : World Literature : Canadian : Classics : Authors, A-Z : Lowry, Malcolm
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Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul's debilitating malaise is drinking, and activity that has overshadowed his life. Under the Volcano is set during the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac to rescue him and their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. Yvonne's mission is to save the consul is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half-brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.
Under the Volcano remains one of the most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition and one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.
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This is the story of Dana Hilliot's first voyage, as mess-boy on the freighter "Oedipus Tyranjnus" bound for Bombay and Singapore and of his struggle to win the approval of his shipmates. This book alternates between Dana's own narrative and the humour of the seaman's conversation.
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A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL
Notorious for a misspent life full of binges, blackouts, and unimaginable bad luck, Malcolm Lowry managed, against every odd, to complete and publish two novels, one of them, Under the Volcano, an indisputable masterpiece. At the time of his death in 1957, Lowry also left behind a great deal of uncollected and unpublished writing: stories, novellas, drafts of novels and revisions of drafts of novels (Lowry was a tireless revisiter and reviser—and interrupter—of his work), long, impassioned, haunting, beautiful letters overflowing with wordplay and lament, fraught short poems that display a sozzled off-the-cuff inspiration all Lowry’s own. Over the years these writings have appeared in various volumes, all long out of print. Here, in The Voyage That Never Ends, the poet, translator, and critic Michael Hofmann has drawn on all this scattered and inaccessible material to assemble the first book that reflects the full range of Lowry’s extraordinary and singular achievement.
The result is a revelation. In the letters—acknowledged to be among modern literature’s greatest—we encounter a character who was, as contemporaries attested, as spellbinding and lovable as he was self-destructive and infuriating. In the late fiction—the long story “Through the Panama,” sections of unfinished novels such as Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid, and the little-known La Mordida—we discover a writer who is blazing a path into the unknown and, as he goes, improvising a whole new kind of writing. Lowry had set out to produce a great novel, something to top Under the Volcano, a multivolume epic and intimate tale of purgatorial suffering and ultimate redemption (called, among other things, “The Voyage That Never Ends”). That book was never to be. What he produced instead was an unprecedented and prophetic blend of fact and fiction, confession and confusion, essay and free play, that looks forward to the work of writers as different as Norman Mailer and William Gass, but is like nothing else. Almost in spite of himself, Lowry succeeded in transforming his disastrous life into an exhilarating art of disaster. The Voyage That Never Ends is a new and indispensable entry into the world of one of the masters of modern literature.
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Although Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) published only two novels--Ultramarine and Under the Volcano--in his lifetime, numerous other works, most of which have since been edited for publication, were in various stages of composition at his death. La Mordida, the longest and most significant of the manuscripts that have not been previously published, is a draft of a novel based on Lowry's visit to Mexico in 1945-46, which ended in the arrest and deportation of Lowry and his wife following a nightmarish run-in with corrupt immigration authorities. On its most immediate level, the title La Mordida--which means "the little bite," Mexican slang for the small bribe that officials are apt to demand in order to expedite matters--refers to the autobiographical protagonist's legal difficulties. In a larger sense, however, it also represents his inability to escape his past, to repay the fine, or debt, that he owes.The central narrative of La Mordida involves a descent into the abyss of self, culminating in the protagonist's symbolic rebirth at the book's end. Lowry planned to use this basic narrative pattern as the springboard for innumerable questions about such concerns as art, identity, the nature of existence, political issues, and alcoholism. Above all, La Mordida was to have been a metafictional work about an author who sees no point in living eve
Complemento a la vez que quintaesencia de su obra narrativa, la poesia de Malcolm Lowry no ha sido hasta el momento valorada, ni leida, como se merece. Tal vez era necesario que un poeta de la talla de Juan Luis Panero seleccionara sus poemas mas significativos para que el lector pudiera disfrutar de sus imagenes y evocaciones, estrechamente relacionadas con la biografia de Lowry y, por supuesto, con su obra, en particular con su novela Bajo el volcan. / Supplement to the time of his quintessential narrative, the poetry of Malcolm Lowry has not been rated so far, or read, as it deserves. Perhaps it was necessary for a poet of the stature of Juan Luis Panero select the most significant for his poems that the reader can enjoy your pictures and memories, which are closely related to the biography of Lowry, and of course with his work, particularly with his novel Under the Volcano.
An authoritative biography of the author of Under the Volcano traces Lowry's turbulent life, from his travels around the world and in and out of bars, clinics, and jail, to his final period of literary activity.
This intimate memoir of the tempestuous marriage between Jan Gabrial, a young, aspiring American writer, and British novelist Malcolm Lowry takes us through the highs and lows of this passionate, troubled relationship. Lowry began writing his best-known work, Under the Volcano, during their marriage, while the two were living in Mexico. He based the character of Yvonne on his wife. Now, for the first time, Jan Gabrial tells the true story of their lives during those heady years, and provides a compelling portrait of a troubled artist, a bright and independent young woman, their deep love and bitter struggles, and her positive role in the creation of his work.
" While James Joyce was a central figure of high modernism, Malcom Lowry spoke for the next generation of modernist writers and, despite his denials, was almost certainly influenced by Joyce. Wherever the truth lies, there are correspondences and differences to be explored between Joyce and Lowry that are far more interesting than the question of direct influence. Despite numerous differences, their works have much in common: verbal richness, experimentation with narrative structure and perspective, a fascination with cultural and historical forces as well as with the process of artistic creation, and the inclusion of artist figures who are in varying degrees ironic self-portrayals. The contributors to Joyce/Lowry examine the relationship of these two expatriates writers, both to each other and to broader issues in the study of literary modernism and its aftermath. This collection embraces a variety of approaches. The volume begins with a consideration of Joyce and Lowry as practitioners of Expressionist art and concludes with an essay on John Huston's cinematic interpretation of works by both writers. In between are explorations of nationalism, anti-Semitism, syphilis, mental illness, and authorial design.
Bill Plantagenet es un pianista de jazz britanico, alcoholizado, lector ferviente de Melville y apasionado por los grandes barcos. Cuando llega a Nueva York, comprueba que todo en su vida han sido naufragios y perdidas, como la de su grupo de musica y su compañera, Ruth. Su peregrinacion por las tabernas del puerto de la ciudad culmina en un hospital psiquiatrico, en realidad un infierno, un barco varado o, segun como se mire, una carcel, donde compartira su tiempo y su suerte con marineros, borrachos, pobres de solemnidad y personajes desahuciados como el viejo Kalowsky, el joven Garry o el negro Battle. Mientras contempla desde las ventanas del hospital el paso de los buques por el East River, Bill comprende que el doctor Claggart, el psiquiatra que lo atiende, jamas podra curar su alma enferma. Tal vez, cuando le den el alta, sus pasos le lleven al lugar de donde viene: a las tabernas del puerto, al olvido que le procura el whisky, y todo vuelva a comenzar y a repetirse, sin que sepamos donde esta el principio y donde el final. / Bill Plantagenet is a British jazz pianist, alcoholic, ferving reader of Melville and passionate about big boats. When he arrives to New York, finds that everything in his life have been sinking and losses, like his own band and his companion, Ruth. His pilgrimage by the taverns of the city port culminates in a psychiatric hospital, in fact a hell, or a stranded boat, depending on how you look, a prison, where hell share his time and fortune with sailors, drunken, poor and solemnity characters like the old Kalowsky evicted, the young Garry or Battle, the black guy. While watching the boats passing by the East River Bill understands that Dr. Claggart, the psychiatrist who is in care of him, will never heal his sick soul.
Ten years in the making, Under the Volcano is the best-known work of writer Malcolm Lowry. Published first in 1947, it is a brilliant, moving, and complex novel, perhaps the last fictional masterpiece to emerge from the modernist movement.As the years went by, Lowry's obsessive rewriting took him further and further into his book, which changed relatively little in the outer semblance of action and main characters but became utterly transformed in texture from the thin and mediocre version of 1940 to the rich tapestry of 1947. The numerous manuscripts allow a look at the processes by which Lowry created not only his masterwork but also his own reputation as a modernist genius.
This study offers an extended examination of individual drafts as the novel slowly developed and, in a final chapter, an appraisal of the implications of Lowry's revisions for the book as published, an appraisal that suggests bases for new readings of Under the Volcano.
Bajo el volcán, una de las más grandes novelas que nos dejó el siglo XX, ha creado legiones de lectores devotos. Quienes han recorrido las intensas páginas de esa novela difícilmente pueden resistir a su embrujo. Malcolm Lowry escribió varios centenares de poemas, se consideraba a sí mismo ante todo poeta y a eso se debe su acercamiento a la literatura. Conocía a fondo la poesía isabelina y jamás dejó de escribir poemas. Sin embargo, nunca vio publicado un libro suyo de versos. Ediciones Era lo publica ahora en edición bilingüe, traducido en su mayor parte por Rafael Vargas, con algunas versiones hechas por Jaime García Terrés y José Emilio Pacheco.
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