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One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics. It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him, the consul has become an enduring tragic figure. As the day wears on, it becomes apparent that Geoffrey must die. It is his only escape from a world he cannot understand. His story, the image of one man's agonised journey towards Calvary, became a prophetic book for a whole generation. Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) was born and died in England. Between school and studying English at St Catherine's College, Cambridge he spent five months at sea as a deckhand, an experience which gave him the material for his first novel, Ultramarine (1933). After marrying in Paris, he moved to New York where he completed In Ballast to the White (1936). Under The Volcano was begun in Hollywood, coloured by a short stay in the Mexico that it describes, and eventually finished in Dollarton, British Columbia. If you enjoyed Under the Volcano, you might like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, also available in Penguin Classics. 'A Faustian masterpiece' Anthony Burgess
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Malcolm Lowry (1909 - 1957) was raised in England and died there but lived much of his troubled life semi-nomadically - in New York, Mexico and British Columbia.
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Under the Volcano: Also Including Letters Between Malcolm Lowry And Jonathan Cape About "Under the Volcano": Selected Letters (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Under the Volcano
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Condition: Aceptable. : Bajo el volcán es una novela del escritor inglés Malcolm Lowry, publicada en 1947. La historia se desarrolla en México durante el Día de Muertos de 1938 y sigue los últimos días de Geoffrey Firmin, un excónsul británico alcohólico. La novela explora temas como el amor, la pérdida, la soledad y la autodestrucción en un contexto de decadencia y desesperación. Considerada una de las obras maestras de la literatura del siglo XX, Bajo el volcán destaca por su estilo experimental, su simbolismo complejo y su profunda exploración de la condición humana. EAN: 9780140083354 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Under the Volcano Autor: Malcolm Lowry Editorial: Penguin Classics Idioma: en Páginas: 416 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2025-11-19-cf8d96ea
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Under the Volcano - With an Introduction by Stephen Spender
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