In Firmin's estranged wife, Yvonne, you can make out traces of an elusive F. One reason Lowry casts a blurry aura is that in reading him, you constantly run into a pet theme or expressive tic of another writer. Object, but more than most great novels it is revisited year after year by a few zealous defenders, who place Lowry high up in the modernist pantheon, while the rest of the world is only barely aware of his masterpiece as an exotic ''Under the Volcano'' is too famous to be just a cult THOUGH he wrote poems and a fair amount of fiction both long and short, Malcolm Lowry is remembered almost exclusively for ''Under the Volcano,'' his sinister 1947 novel about the final days of Geoffrey Firmin,Īn English ex-consul in Mexico who has traded in his links to other human beings for the masochistic, visionary insights he gets guzzling whisky and mescal. The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
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