by Malcolm Lowry · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140083354
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«Under the Volcano» is the novel by Malcolm Lowry, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (416 pages, in English).
In Under the Volcano, Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British ex-consul, lives what seems to be his last day in a Mexican town during the Day of the Dead. His ex-wife and half-brother accompany him without being able to intervene, in a narrative of experimental style and complex symbolism that addresses decay, loneliness, and fatality.
The 1985 English edition belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics collection. Under the Volcano was originally published in 1947.
For readers of literary fiction and modern classics, interested in twentieth-century British literature and narratives of tragic tone.
Clarence Malcolm Lowry was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list.
