![]() ![]() Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab, and every page of it pulsates on Out of Body Auto-Reply, that style of pure Lowry that points at once backward, to all European literature, and forward, to the mother of all nervous breakdowns.īut John Simon, writing in the National Review, raged against it and its maker, decrying the book as having been written “with the obsessive tenacity of a megalomaniacal sot who was going to spawn a masterwork if it killed him and all those who cared for and about him. Following the last hours in the life of a British dipsomaniac, “Under the Volcano” embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. ![]() “Under the Volcano” takes place in a demi-Joycean 12 hours, on the feast of the Day of the Dead in Mexico, and took Lowry a Joycean 10 years to fully emit. Malcolm Lowry, in full Clarence Malcolm Lowry, (born July 28, 1909, Wallasey, Cheshire, Englanddied June 27, 1957, Ripe, Sussex), English novelist, short-story writer, and poet whose masterwork was Under the Volcano (1947 reissued 1962). Coming of age a half-generation after “Ulysses,” the British-born, Cambridge-educated Lowry wanted to produce not just a novel but a cosmos-surfing, cosmos-swallowing book of books. ![]()
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