![]() It received Oscar nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Original Score. In 1984, John Huston directed a film adaptation of Under the Volcano. TIME included the book in its list of 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. The Modern Library ranked Under the Volcano eleventh on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was out of print by the time Lowry died of alcoholism in 1957 yet is critically acclaimed today. In fact, the complexity of Under the Volcano has been compared with James Joyce’s stylistic masterpiece, Ulysses. Drawing heavily upon autobiographical material, the author amplifies the complexity of the story with unexpected narrative shifts and allusive layers of symbolism. Under the Volcano thoroughly demonstrates Lowry’s highly stylistic writing choices. ![]() ![]() Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead in 1938. ![]() publisher’s wrappers, handwritten title on spine.Īdvance reading copy of the first edition. “ A Faustian masterpiece” (Anthony Burgess).Īn attractive advance reading copy of one of the masterpieces ![]() Malcolm Lowry’s Under the volcano, “ One of the twentieth century’s great undisputed masterpieces. ![]()
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