Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcano

Name: Under the Volcano
Brand: Antikvariát Avion
SKU: 5104444
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ISBN: 9780141182254

2011 | Nakladatelství The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

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 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 . After marrying in Paris, he moved to New York where he completed In Ballast to the White . 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. 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 De…ad' 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 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 . After marrying in Paris, he moved to New York where he completed In Ballast to the White . 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.

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Nová

Vazba:

Brožovaná

Počet stran:

400

Jazyk:

anglicky

ISBN10:

0141182253

ISBN:

9780141182254

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6. 1. 2026 0:45

Číslo položky:

1522381

O autorovi

Malcolm Lowry

Clarence Malcolm Lowry byl anglický básník a spisovatel, který se proslul především svojí knihou Under the Volcano z roku 1947. Na filmové plátno knihu převedl roku 1984 John Huston . Za jeho života mu vyšly jen dvě novely, krom Pod sopkou ještě Ultramarine roku 1933. Řada prací, zejména básní, však ještě vyšla posmrtně. Foxcroft, Nigel H., The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans, . ISBN 978-1-4985-1657-0. Bradbrook, Muriel Clara: Malcolm Lowry: His Art and Early Life, Cambridge, Cambridge university press 1974.

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