Under the Volcano
Lowry, Malcolm : Introduction by Stephen Spender
Language: English
Published by New York: harper & Row, Publishers, inc., 1984
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REISSUE: "This is a reissue of a book originally published by J. B. Lippincott in 1947" stated. Very good plus, if not near fine 375 page BOOK CLUB EDITION hardback with blind stamp along lower edge of rear cover near spine, in very good plus unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Book has a light, if not very light 1 inch by 3/4 inch semi-circular oily stain to top edge of four leaves; and light, if not very light coffee-colored stains to last leaf and inside of rear free endpaper. Dust jacket has a 3/4 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel near spine; fading to orange lettering and background of spine; and minor, if not trivial wear to edges. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket: primarily to front and rear paste-downs.
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- Title
- Under the Volcano
- Author
- Lowry, Malcolm : Introduction by Stephen Spender
- Publisher
- New York: harper & Row, Publishers, inc.
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060153679
- ISBN 13
- 9780060153670
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
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Review
I think I know a good deal about physical suffering. But this is worst of all, to feel your soul dying. I wonder if it is because tonight that my soul has really died that I feel at the moment something like peace...Sometimes I am possessed by a most powerful feeling, a despairing bewildered jealousy which, when deepened by drink, turns into a desire to destroy myself by my own imagination--not at least to be the prey of--ghosts--Malcolm Lowry's Under The Volcano, first published in 1947, is quite simply one of the great novels of the 20th century. Semi-autobiographical, and taking place during the Mexican festival of the Day of the Dead in 1938, it recounts the last day in the life of the alcoholic ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin. Surrounded by the helpless presences of his ex-wife, his half-brother and acquaintances, he descends into a mescal-soaked purgatory, moving inexorably towards his tragic fate. His self-destructiveness reflects a spiritual struggle born of wilful abnegation and passivity, a depressed, existential acquiescence to the futility of positive action.
The story is simple, its manner of telling decidedly not: Lowry's style is dense, symbolic, allusive, the prose thick with resonance, and the structure complex, with flashbacks, abrupt shifts, and a gradual accumulation of information--it is a book that deserves reading and then rereading, for its pattern and subtleties reveal themselves only slowly. Firmin's story anchors the book's political ambience--the rise of Fascism and the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War lie heavily across its pages, and in turn make of Firmin not a character to be pitied but a representative figure of modernity. In this, Lowry's masterpiece has lost none of its power: it speaks to us of suffering and of loneliness, eliciting our compassion under the century's terrible shadow of mortality. --Burhan Tufail
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