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Under vulkanen
Inbunden, Svenska, 2019
199 kr
»En av 1900-talets största romaner.« | The New York Times
Det är De dödas dag i november 1939. Medan den gamla världen kollapsar letar Geoffrey Firmin, före detta brittisk konsul, upp ständigt nya anledningar att ta en kyld drink i en mexikansk kurort med fyrahundra övergivna pooler, åtta kyrkor och femtiosju barer. I ett gränslöst alkoholiserat delirium är han bara vagt medveten om de sanningar som börjar verka runt omkring honom. Under vulkanen är en av 1900-talets största romaner och det viktigaste av Malcolm Lowrys två fullbordade verk. Romanen iscensätter en säregen medvetandeström: »Här finns en episk uthållighet som hämtar sin styrka ur övertygelsen om litteraturens förmåga att gestalta en mycket svår mänsklig erfarenhet, att förmedla den genom att utgöra en erfarenhet i sig.« [Ur förordet. ] I översättning av Erik Sandin och med ett nyskrivet förord av Klas Östergren.
MALCOLM LOWRY föddes 1909 i engelska Wallasey och dog i East Sussex 1957. Under vulkanen skrevs färdigt i kanadensiska North Vancouver efter några svårt nedgångna år i Mexiko. Romanen var en omedelbar succé när den publicerades 1947, blev snabbt översatt till ett flertal språk och förekommer på elfte plats i Modern Librarys lista över de hundra bästa engelskspråkiga nittonhundratals-romanerna.
Malcolm Lowry frambesvärjer en djupt personlig vision av alkoholismens inferno, i en bok full av insikt, medkänsla och tragisk livserfarenhet.« | Kastner, Svenska Dagbladet
»Under vulkanen är en drabbande berättelse, närmast omöjlig att värja sig emot. En klassisk och mäktig roman som gräver sig djupt in i själens mörkaste skrymslen.« | Crister Enander, Tidningen Kulturen
»Ett faustiskt mästerverk.« | Anthony Burgess
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him, the consul has become an enduring tragic figure. As the day wears on, it becomes apparent that Geoffrey must die. It is his only escape from a world he cannot understand. His story, the image of one man's agonised journey towards Calvary, became a prophetic book for a whole generation.Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) was born and died in England. Between school and studying English at St Catherine's College, Cambridge he spent five months at sea as a deckhand, an experience which gave him the material for his first novel, Ultramarine (1933). After marrying in Paris, he moved to New York where he completed In Ballast to the White (1936). Under The Volcano was begun in Hollywood, coloured by a short stay in the Mexico that it describes, and eventually finished in Dollarton, British Columbia. If you enjoyed Under the Volcano, you might like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, also available in Penguin Classics.'A Faustian masterpiece'Anthony Burgess
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
292 kr
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One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him, the consul has become an enduring tragic figure. As the day wears on, it becomes apparent that Geoffrey must die. It is his only escape from a world he cannot understand. His story, the image of one man's agonised journey towards Calvary, became a prophetic book for a whole generation.Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) was born and died in England. Between school and studying English at St Catherine's College, Cambridge he spent five months at sea as a deckhand, an experience which gave him the material for his first novel, Ultramarine (1933). After marrying in Paris, he moved to New York where he completed In Ballast to the White (1936). Under The Volcano was begun in Hollywood, coloured by a short stay in the Mexico that it describes, and eventually finished in Dollarton, British Columbia. If you enjoyed Under the Volcano, you might like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, also available in Penguin Classics.'A Faustian masterpiece'Anthony Burgess
E-bok
Engelska, 201139 kr
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'Staring out at the river his agony was like a great lidless eye'In this stark, compelling and greatly autobiographical novella, Malcolm Lowry tells the story of Bill Plantagenet, a piano player and ex-sailor who has lost his band and his mind drinking in New York. As Plantagenet commits himself to a Psychiatric hospital to suffer his recovery, Lowry writes with eloquent ferocity on the delusions of madness, and the true meaning of sanity.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
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Although Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) published only two novels—Ultramarine and Under the Volcano—in his lifetime, numerous other works, most of which have since been edited for publication, were in various stages of composition at his death. La Mordida, the longest and most significant of the manuscripts that have not been previously published, is a draft of a novel based on Lowry's visit to Mexico in 1945–46, which ended in the arrest and deportation of Lowry and his wife following a nightmarish run-in with corrupt immigration authorities. On its most immediate level, the title La Mordida—which means "the little bite," Mexican slang for the small bribe that officials are apt to demand in order to expedite matters—refers to the autobiographical protagonist's legal difficulties. In a larger sense, however, it also represents his inability to escape his past, to repay the fine, or debt, that he owes.The central narrative of La Mordida involves a descent into the abyss of self, culminating in the protagonist's symbolic rebirth at the book's end. Lowry planned to use this basic narrative pattern as the springboard for innumerable questions about such concerns as art, identity, the nature of existence, political issues, and alcoholism. Above all, La Mordida was to have been a metafictional work about an author who sees no point in living events if he cannot write about them and who is not only unable to write but suspects that he is just a character in a novel.A reading of La Mordida in the context of Lowry's aesthetic theories and psychological problems shows why he dreaded the completion of his projects to such an extent that he called success a "horrible disaster" and compared death to "the accepted manuscript of one's life." The reason, La Mordida makes clear, lies partly in the aesthetic theories that led Lowry to attempt a book that he prophetically called "something never dreamed of before, a work of art so beyond conception it could not be written."Patrick A. McCarthy's edition of La Mordida is based on materials held in the Malcolm Lowry Archive at the University of British Columbia. Its publication provides essential evidence for a balanced assessment of Lowry's creative processes and his achievement as a writer.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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While famous for his celebrated novel, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry always considered himself a poet. First published in 1962 and long out of print, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry is the only comprehensive selection of his poetry to be published, and it remains the perfect introduction to his extensive poetic canon. Edited by Lowry's good friend, renowned Canadian poet Earle Birney, with the assistance of his widow, Margerie Lowry, the selection includes extraordinary poems written during Lowry's stay in Mexico, many of which are closely related to his novel. This new edition includes a "Publisher's Note" from Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "These poems would be worth keeping in print, if for no other reason, for their illuminations of Under the Volcano: 'See mind's petal / torn from a good tree, but where shall it settle / But in the last darkness and at the end?' Sometimes, as the images of "For Under the Volcano," they become 'palm-of-the-hand' versions of that masterpiece. Lowry is a poet of struggle--with life, and with the creative process.Here are his struggle's fruits: guilt, alcoholism, hopeless, self-deriding quest for salvation, which seems to be love, and, above all, self-destruction--but always accomplished with self-knowledge, enriched (in order to further torment itself) with compassion for all the beings that the poet, and us with him, are failing. His words are always sad and often beautiful."-William T. Vollman
E-bok
Engelska, 201233 kr
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From the author of Under the Volcano: A novel of a young man’s flight from the upper class to join the hard-living crew of a freighter bound for South Asia. In this debut novel by the acclaimed novelist and poet, Dana Hilliot seeks absolution from his wealthy British upbringing, escaping the bourgeois provincialism of his origins by setting out to sea as a messboy amid a crew of weathered, world-weary sailors. Lost somewhere between Singapore and Bombay, Hilliot has fled his oppressive life—and his first love—for a world that has no interest in his problems. Part Moby Dick, part A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ultramarine draws on Malcolm Lowry’s own early experience—and displays the flair for character and dazzling prose that distinguished him as one of English literature’s greatest modern talents.
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Engelska, 2012164 kr
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“Lowry’s masterpiece” about a fateful Day of the Dead in a small Mexican town and one man’s struggle against the forces threatening to destroy him (Los Angeles Times). In what the New York Times calls “one of the towering novels of [the twentieth] century,” former British consul Geoffrey Firmin lives alone with his demons in the shadow of two active volcanoes in South Central Mexico. Gripped by alcoholism, Geoffrey makes one last effort to salvage his crumbling life on the day that his ex-wife, Yvonne, arrives in town. It’s the Day of the Dead, 1938. The couple wants to revive their marriage and undo the wrongs of their past, but they soon realize that they’ve stumbled into the wrong place and time, where not only Geoffrey and Yvonne, but the world itself is on the edge of Armageddon. Hailed by the Modern Library as one of the one hundred best English novels of the twentieth century, Under the Volcano stands as an iconic and richly drawn example of the modern novel at its most lyrical.
E-bok
Engelska, 2012178 kr
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Paradise proves fleeting in this engrossing tale of a married couple who tries to chase away the past by immersing themselves in natureEdited by Malcolm Lowry’s widow and released more than a decade after his death, October Ferry to Gabriola is the sentimental story of two individuals striving for sanity, inspiration, hope, and purpose in the deep seclusion of the British Columbian forest. Once the couple finds a new home in the woods, their new, off-the-grid life together becomes their last attempt at finding stability... Illuminating and joyful, October Ferry to Gabriola is a striking ode to the struggle for hope amid the purity of the wilderness—a story made all the more poignant by Lowry’s untimely death before publication.
E-bok
Engelska, 2012178 kr
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Seven stories and novellas by the author of Under the Volcano, a master of twentieth-century fiction. For fans of the novel Under the Volcano, this collection of stories—many of them published for the first time posthumously—provides great insight into the author’s genius. The stories range from heartfelt tragedy to exuberant triumph. In the novella “Through the Panama,” a burned-out, alcoholic writer tries to make sense of the literature that has kept him afloat while the pulse of his life grows harder to distinguish. In “The Forest Path to Spring,” a couple that has survived hell finds new life in the seclusion of a vast forest. And in “The Bravest Boat,” a young boy sends a message across the ocean to an unknown recipient. Together, these stories reveal a writer who traveled widely, observed keenly, and maintained an engrossing literary style that still reverberates today.
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Engelska, 2009398 kr
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On the Day of the Dead, 1938, former British consul Geoffrey Firmin is in Quauhnahuac, Mexico, where his life has become overshadowed by the debilitating malaise of drinking. His wife, Yvonne, has just arrived on a mission to rescue their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of a life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. But Yvonne’s mission is further complicated by the presence of the consul’s half-brother, Hugh, and Jacques, a childhood friend. Geoffrey, for his part, knows he must stop drinking in order to function efficiently, but at the same time he cannot function efficiently without drinking. He both loves and despises Yvonne, simultaneously wants to flee Mexico and stay under the two smoking volcanoes. The events of this one day unfold against the unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. A modern classic, Under the Volcano is a powerful and lyrical statement on the human condition and one man’s constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.
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Engelska, 2018186 kr
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A quartet of the British novelist’s finest works of fiction, including “Lowry’s masterpiece,” Under the Volcano (Los Angeles Times). Malcolm Lowry was an author who poured his soul into his prose, including his struggle with his own demons. Of his most famous work, Under the Volcano, Dawn Powell wrote: “You love the author for the pain of his overwhelming understanding.” In the New YorkHerald Tribune, Mark Schorer commented that few novels “convey so feelingly the agony of alienation, the infernal suffering of disintegration.” D. T. Max wrote in the New Yorker: “[Lowry’s] portrait of an unravelling drunk was unnervingly intimate.” Honored by the Modern Library as one of the one hundred best English language novels of the twentieth century, Under the Volcano is widely acknowledged as “Lowry’s masterpiece” (Los Angeles Times). In this novel and the other works of fiction gathered here, the reader follows Lowry as he confronts the abyss, but also shares in his eternal hope for transcendence. Ultramarine: Lowry’s debut novel, and the only book, other than Under the Volcano, published in his lifetime, is the coming-of-age story of Dana Hilliot, who escapes the bourgeois provincialism of his upper-class British upbringing by joining a crew of weathered, world-weary sailors on a freighter bound for South Asia. Part Moby-Dick, part A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ultramarin draws on Lowry’s own early experience on the sea. Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place: Published posthumously, these seven stories and novellas include “Through the Panama,” in which a burned-out, alcoholic writer on a voyage from Vancouver to Europe tries to make sense of the literature that has kept him afloat, while the pulse of his life grows harder to distinguish, and “The Forest Path to Spring,” about a couple that has been through hell finding new life in the beauty and seclusion of a vast forest. “[These] stories and novellas afford glimpses of the whole toward which Lowry was striving.” —The New York Times Under the Volcano: Former British consul Geoffrey Firmin lives alone with his demons in the shadow of two active volcanoes in South Central Mexico. Drowning in alcoholism, Geoffrey makes one last effort to salvage his crumbling life when his estranged wife, Yvonne, arrives in town on the Day of the Dead, 1938. “One of the towering novels of [the twentieth] century.” —The New York Times October Ferry to Gabriola: Edited by Lowry’s widow and frequent collaborator, and released more than a decade after his untimely death, October Ferry to Gabriola is the story of a married couple striving for renewal, sanity, and transcendence in the deep seclusion of the British Columbian forest. “What awaits [the reader] is worth the effort: a species of ecstatic, lyrical prose that has all but gone out of existence.” —The New York Times
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Rumänska, 201837 kr
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Este fiesta din ziua morților în micul oraș mexican Quauhnahuac. În umbra vulcanului, copii în zdrențe cerșesc bani ca să cumpere cranii de ciocolată, câini vagabonzi bântuie pe străzi, iar Geoffrey Firmin – fost consul, fost soț, un bărbat alcoolic și distrus – își trăiește ultima zi din viață. Hotărât să se înece în mescal sub privirile neputincioase ale fostei soții și ale fratelui său vitreg, consulul a devenit o figură tragică. Pe măsură ce ziua se scurge, devine evident că Geoffrey trebuie să moară. Este singura sa evadare dintr-o lume pe care nu o poate înțelege. Povestea lui, imaginea călătoriei agonizante a unui om spre Calvar, a devenit o carte profetică pentru o întreagă generație.Sub vulcan nu poate fi comparată decât cu marile cărți totemice ale secolului nostru: De veghe în lanul de secară a lui J.D. Salinger sau Pe drum a lui Jack Kerouac.The New York TimesSub vulcan dezvăluie acele două trăsături de geniu ale prozei lui Lowry – limbajul poetic și capacitatea de a conferi detaliilor autobiografice o valoare universală.Los Angeles Times
Häftad, Spanska, 2020
283 kr
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Under vulkanen
E-bok
Svenska, 201399 kr
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Det är De dödas dag i november 1939. Medan den gamla världen kollapsar letar Geoffrey Firmin, före detta brittisk konsul, upp ständigt nya anledningar att ta en kyld drink i en mexikansk kurort med fyrahundra övergivna pooler, åtta kyrkor och femtiosju barer. I ett gränslöst alkoholiserat delirium är han bara vagt medveten om de sanningar som börjar verka runt omkring honom.Under vulkanen är en av 1900-talets största romaner och det viktigaste av Malcolm Lowrys två fullbordade verk. Romanen iscensätter en säregen medvetandeström: »Här finns en episk uthållighet som hämtar sin styrka ur övertygelsen om litteraturens förmåga att gestalta en mycket svår mänsklig erfarenhet, att förmedla den genom att utgöra en erfarenhet i sig.« (Ur förordet.)I översättning av Erik Sandin och med ett nyskrivet förord av Klas Östergren.»Malmcolm Lowry frambesvärjer en djupt personlig vision av alkoholismens inferno, i en bok full av insikt, medkänsla och tragisk livserfarenhet.« FABIAN KASTNER, SVENSKA DAGBLADET»Under vulkanen är en drabbande berättelse, närmast omöjlig att värja sig emot. En klassisk och mäktig roman som gräver sig djupt in i själens mörkaste skrymslen.« CRISTER ENANDER, TIDNINGEN KULTUREN»En av 1900-talets största romaner.« NEW YORK TIMES»Under vulkanen är skriven med övertygelsen om att en roman kan skildra ett historiskt skeende genom en människas trasiga blick. En mäktig berättelse.« ERIK JERSENIUS, GEFLE DAGBLAD»Ett faustiskt mästerverk.« ANTHONY BURGESS
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Häftad, Spanska, 2026
181 kr
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- Nyhet
Häftad, Spanska, 2026
163 kr
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- Nyhet
Häftad, Spanska, 2026
282 kr
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Del 11 - En modern klassiker
Under vulkanen
Pocket, Svenska, 2013
89 kr
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Det är De dödas dag i november 1939. Medan den gamla världen kollapsar letar Geoffrey Firmin, före detta brittisk konsul, upp ständigt nya anledningar att ta en kyld drink i en mexikansk kurort med fyrahundra övergivna pooler, åtta kyrkor och femtiosju barer. I ett gränslöst alkoholiserat delirium är han bara vagt medveten om de sanningar som börjar verka runt omkring honom.Under vulkanen är en av 1900-talets största romaner och det viktigaste av Malcolm Lowrys två fullbordade verk. Romanen iscensätter en säregen medvetandeström: »Här finns en episk uthållighet som hämtar sin styrka ur övertygelsen om litteraturens förmåga att gestalta en mycket svår mänsklig erfarenhet, att förmedla den genom att utgöra en erfarenhet i sig.« (Ur förordet.)I översättning av Erik Sandin och med ett nyskrivet förord av Klas Östergren.»Malmcolm Lowry frambesvärjer en djupt personlig vision av alkoholismens inferno, i en bok full av insikt, medkänsla och tragisk livserfarenhet.« FABIAN KASTNER, SVENSKA DAGBLADET»Under vulkanen är en drabbande berättelse, närmast omöjlig att värja sig emot. En klassisk och mäktig roman som gräver sig djupt in i själens mörkaste skrymslen.« CRISTER ENANDER, TIDNINGEN KULTUREN»En av 1900-talets största romaner.« NEW YORK TIMES»Under vulkanen är skriven med övertygelsen om att en roman kan skildra ett historiskt skeende genom en människas trasiga blick. En mäktig berättelse.« ERIK JERSENIUS, GEFLE DAGBLAD»Ett faustiskt mästerverk.« ANTHONY BURGESS
Del 11 - En modern klassiker
Under vulkanen
Häftad, Svenska, 2011
329 kr
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Det är De dödas dag i november 1939. Medan den gamla världen kollapsar letar Geoffrey Firmin, före detta brittisk konsul, upp ständigt nya anledningar till en avkyld drink i en mexikansk kurort med fyrahundra övergivna pooler, åtta kyrkor och femtiosju barer. I ett gränslöst alkoholiserat delirium är han bara vagt medveten om de sanningar som börjar verka runt omkring honom. Under vulkanen är en av 1900-talets största romaner och det viktigaste av Malcolm Lowrys två fullbordade verk. Romanen iscensätter en säregen medvetandeström: »Här finns en episk uthållighet som hämtar sin styrka ur övertygelsen om litteraturens förmåga att gestalta en mycket svår mänsklig erfarenhet, att förmedla den genom att utgöra en erfarenhet i sig «, skriver Klas Östergren i sitt förord. MALCOLM LOWRY föddes 1909 i engelska Wallasey och dog i East Sussex 1957. Under vulkanen skrevs färdigt i kanadensiska North Vancouver efter några svårt nedgångna år i Mexiko. Romanen var en omedelbar succé när den publicerades 1947, blev snabbt översatt till ett flertal språk och förekommer som nummer elva på Modern Librarys lista över de hundra bästa engelskspråkiga nittonhundratalsromaner.