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Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano is now recognised as one of the major novels of this century, with an international reputation. Its epic breadth and opulent experimental prose have influenced a wide range of contemporary writers.
This study considers the significance of the autobiographical elements of Lowry's writing, in the context of his developing concern with fictionality and the romantic sensibility. It gives special attention to his exotic many-sided masterpiece and discusses the ways in which the narrative's reflexive games-playing elements affect the representation of character, history, myth and magic. It surveys Lowry's late experimental novels and stories and considers how their metafictional aspects anticipate some key interests of contemporary writing. Finally, there is an appendix on the recent film of Under the Volcano.
This study considers the significance of the autobiographical elements of Lowry's writing, in the context of his developing concern with fictionality and the romantic sensibility. It gives special attention to his exotic many-sided masterpiece and discusses the ways in which the narrative's reflexive games-playing elements affect the representation of character, history, myth and magic. It surveys Lowry's late experimental novels and stories and considers how their metafictional aspects anticipate some key interests of contemporary writing. Finally, there is an appendix on the recent film of Under the Volcano.
112 pages, Paperback
First published October 18, 1984
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