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Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

Paperback | Pages: 397 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 21110 Users | 1322 Reviews

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Original Title:	Under the Volcano
ISBN:	0060955228 (ISBN13: 9780060955229)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Geoffrey Firmin, Yvonne Constable, Hugh Firmin, Jacques Laruelle
Setting:	Quauhnahuac,1938(Mexico) Mexico,1938
Literary Awards:	Kääntäjien valtionpalkinto (1969)

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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—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.

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Title	:	Under the Volcano
Author	:	Malcolm Lowry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Perennial Classic
Pages	:	Pages: 397 pages
Published	:	April 26th 2000 by Harper Perennial (first published 1947)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels

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Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life! Malcolm Lowry, Under the VolcanoDon't be fooled by the usual blurb on this novel telling you the story is about a British consul and his wife, his half-brother and his childhood friend. They are but bit players. This is a novel where the main character is liquor and how liquor turns human blood and the nerves of the human nervous system into trillions

Este libro era muy dificil. I heard about this book when my friend Julie and I were in Oaxaca, Mexico back in the mid-80s. We had met a young man named Michael while there, and he showed us around Oaxaca and even took us to meet a Zapotec family in nearby Lacalulu. It was All Soul's Day, and the women in the family were making tamales. Julie and I tried to stir the dough that was in a large caldron. She made it once around, and I could hardly move the spoon though the thick tamale dough. The

The Consul, an inconceivable anguish of horripilating hangover thunderclapping about his skull, and accompanied by a protective screen of demons gnattering in his ears, became aware that in the horrid event of his being observed by his neighbors it could hardly be supposed he was just sauntering down his garden with some innocent horticultural object in view. Nor even that he was sauntering. The Consul ... was almost running. He was also lurching. In vain he tried to check himself ...The Consul.

Purchase a large bottle of tequila and start walking from Ernest Hemingway's house to Vladimir Nabokov's house. As you're walking, take a drink for the sake of squandered love. Then take one for isolation. Take one drink for war, and two for peace. Take one for world-weariness. Take one for betrayal. Take a big one for fear. Take a bigger one for the allure of death. Take one for a chasm opened between lovers. Take one for connections that span oceans, continents. Take one for filthy, homeless

A true literary masterpiece. This is minimalistic in scope but brilliantly complex and multi-layered in detail. The exceptional prose is interspersed with flashes of stream of consciousness and eclectic, almost poetic imagery. The multiple references to Conrad were interesting, almost the flip side of Heart of Darkness as Lowry describes the inevitable collapse of a man and in metaphor, civilization.

The truth is that most of the best books aren't part of any movement at all. Most of them don't need to be; they're just trying to tell you a story. But when you talk about the story of literature, you end up inventing chapters - realism, modernism, gothics - because that helps you organize it. You give examples in each chapter, and so books that can be categorized into these movements end up over-represented in the story. And here we are with Under the Volcano which is not a very important

A good word to describe 1947s Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry is LANGUID. This is authentic rambling & genuinely just one long continuous drivel. All of it: sound and fury signifying nothing. Its a true pity that the book is so inaccessible, unreadable; it invites for some spontaneous skimming to occur, something a book must never inspire in its reader. The setting is magnificent, but certainly not unalike Henry Miller with his snooze-inducing masterpiece impostor Tropic of Cancer, the