Malcolm Lowry

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, struggles to surmount the forces that threaten to destroy him as he copes with alcholism, a failing marriage, and family secrets during one fateful celebration of the Day of the Dead, in a novel set in 1930s Mexico. Reprint.

A Novel

Under the Volcano

Yanardagin Altinda

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.

Under the Volcano was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list. Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul's debilitating malaise is drinking, an 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.

Lunar Caustic

The 1940 Under the Volcano

The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry. 1926-1946

Sursum Corda!

Ultramarine is the story of Dana Hilliot's first voyage, as mess-boy on the freighter Oedipus Tyrannus bound for Bombay and Singapore, and of his struggle to win the approval of his shipmates.

Ultramarine

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Džefri Fermin, bivši britanski konzul, stigao je u zabiti meksički grad Kuaunavak, smešten visoko u planinama. Alkohol je slabost koja je obeležila čitav njegov život. Posle izvesnog vremena pridružuje mu se njegova žena Ivona, inspirisana vizijom skladnog zajedničkog života daleko od Meksika, gde su im se desile sve one nesrećne okolnosti koje su njihov odnos dovele na ivicu propasti. Ona je odlučna da spase Fermina i njihov brak, ali ispostaviće se da ta misija postaje isuviše komplikovana kada se pojave njegov polubrat Hju i prijatelj iz detinjstva Žak. U jednom jedinom danu, na pozornici skoro pa mitskog grada, u folkloru meksičkog magičnog, ali i dijaboličkog okruženja, odigraće se događaji koji će suštinski odrediti živote protagonista ovog romana. Ispod vulkana se smatra jednim od najvažnijih engleskih romana XX veka i nema nikakve sumnje da je izvršio veliki uticaj na mnoge autore širom sveta. Veliki Džon Hjuston je 1984. snimio istoimeni film sa Albertom Finijem u ulozi Džefrija Fermina, i to je samo učvrstilo ovaj roman na prestižnoj listi kultnih ostvarenja moderne svetske književnosti. Prevod sa engleskog Branko Vučićević „Laurijevo remek-delo... s pravom se smatra jednim od deset najznačajnijih dela fikcije nastalih u [dvadesetom] veku.“ — Los Anđeles tajms „Faustijansko remek-delo!“ Entoni Berdžes „Jedan od vrhunskih romana ovog veka.“ – Njujork tajms „... Za razliku od vizija pakla, kojima moderna književnost neštedimice obiluje, nigde čovečnost nije tako blizu i tako nadohvat ruke kao što je to u Ispod vulkana...“ Jovan Hristić

Ispod vulkana

Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry. This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, the creative process that developed from a rather pessimistic and misanthropic vision of the world as a madhouse (The Last Address, 1936), via the apocalyptic metaphors of a world on the brink of Armageddon (The Last Address, 1939), to a world that, in spite of all its troubles, leaves room for self-irony and humanistic concern (Swinging the Maelstrom,1942–1944).

A Critical Edition

Swinging the Maelstrom

Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry. This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, the creative process that developed from a rather pessimistic and misanthropic vision of the world as a madhouse (The Last Address, 1936), via the apocalyptic metaphors of a world on the brink of Armageddon (The Last Address, 1939), to a world that, in spite of all its troubles, leaves room for self-irony and humanistic concern (Swinging the Maelstrom,1942–1944). - This book is published in English.

Conrad Aiken

From the beginning, John Sutherland recognized that his literary gifts lay in criticism rather than in poetry. His independence from the academy and his largely autodidactic training gave him a unique perspective as a critic of Canadian literature. What these letters document, beyond a purely personal struggle, is a period (1942-1956) of great importance in the development of Canadian poetry, and it is above all the nuts and bolts of that development that they bring into keen relief: the economics of publishing books and literary magazines in the days before The Canada Council, and the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of trying wholly to live a life in literature at that time.

The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954

The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry

“Lowry’s masterpiece” about a fateful Day of the Dead in a small Mexican town and one man’s struggle against the forces threatening to destroy him (Los Angeles Times). In what the New York Times calls “one of the towering novels of [the twentieth] century,” former British consul Geoffrey Firmin lives alone with his demons in the shadow of two active volcanoes in South Central Mexico. Gripped by alcoholism, Geoffrey makes one last effort to salvage his crumbling life on the day that his ex-wife, Yvonne, arrives in town. It’s the Day of the Dead, 1938. The couple wants to revive their marriage and undo the wrongs of their past, but they soon realize that they’ve stumbled into the wrong place and time, where not only Geoffrey and Yvonne, but the world itself is on the edge of Armageddon. Hailed by the Modern Library as one of the one hundred best English novels of the twentieth century, Under the Volcano stands as an iconic and richly drawn example of the modern novel at its most lyrical.

Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry

Nancy Strobel

Gerald Noxon

The eighty letters, cards and other messages in this correspondence -- produced mainly by Lowry and Gerald Noxon but also by Margerie (Bonner) Lowry -- offer a fresh introduction to Lowry, a certain 'Canadian' Lowry. At the same time they give insight into two writing careers (Bonner and Noxon) closely intertwined with his and vigorously championed by him in the 1940s. The letters observe the mind of Lowry at play on questions of literary technique, on films, and on the beauties and rigors of life in his Dollarton shack on an inlet near Vancouver. They reveal a warm, supportive, enormously sensitive and intelligent man, modifying somewhat the image of him now available.

The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952

Chris Ackerley

Although his literary reputation rests primarily on his novels, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) considered himself to be a poet, and he composed an extensive poetic canon. No reliable edition of Lowry's poetry currently exists. Increasing critical interest in all aspects of Lowry's life and work prompted the preparation of this complete edition of his poetry, in which the poems are located, identified, dated, arranged, collated, annotated, and explicated by biographical, critical, and textual introductions.

Malcolm Lowry

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