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To a remarkable extent the filmscript of "Tender is the Night", which Malcolm Lowry wrote in 1949-50 with the help of Margerie Bonner Lowry, is less an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel than an extension of Lowry's own fiction. As the editors Miguel Mota and Paul Tiessen show, Malcolm Lowry's script contains important passages which are really "cinematic" restatements of parts of Lowry's novel "Lunar Caustic", and of short stories such as "Through the Panama" and "Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession." The editors note also the many direct and indirect allusions to elements from Lowry's master-work, "Under the Volcano" (1947), a novel which is regarded by many critics as one of the most "cinematic" prose works of the 20th century. Lowry's "Tender is the Night" manuscript is important, then, not only as a completed, 455-page text in its own right but also as a text having a direct bearing on Lowry's own reading of "Under the Volcano" and of his sense of artistic direction after that work. Indeed, the editors consider the significance of the filmscript as a key, almost entirely overlooked, to understanding his projected multi-volume work, "The Voyage that Never Ends".This scholarly edition of Lowry's script presents 38 passages of varying length, from less than one page to over 100 pages, in which Lowry writes with a freedom and creativity that lead to a text narratively and stylistically quite separate and distinct from Fitzgerald's original. It excludes passages where Lowry adheres more or less slavishly, at 37 intervals, to Fitzgerald's novel, though it provides brief narrative summaries of and comments on those omitted sections. Lowry's achievement in his filmscript, as the editors explain in their introduction, demonstrates the nature of Lowry's life-long commitment to and extensive knowledge of the international cinema from the 1910s to the 1950s and also the nature of Lowry's view of the novelist's responsibility to participate in the development of film as an art. The script also illustrates Lowry's relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald as one in a series of literary kinships and, as the editors point out, the work becomes a criticism and analysis of both Fitzgerald's novel and of Fitzgerald himself."The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry" will be of particular value to those with an interest in twentieth-century literature, Malcolm Lowry studies, film studies, and film-literature relationships. Miguel Mota is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Queen's University, Ontario and co-editor, with Paul Tiessen, of a series of manuscripts by Lowry's friend, novelist and radio-dramatist Gerald Noxon. Paul Tiessen is a professor in the English department and coordinator of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is also the editor of "The Malcolm Lowry Review" and of "The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952" (UBC Press, 1988). ... Read more

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Study of the works of Malcolm Lowry, 1909-1957, English novelist. ... Read more

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This is a rhetorical exploration of Malcolm Lowry's novel "Under the Volcano", which seeks to elucidate the techniques that Lowry employed to amplify the fragmentation of the Consul and his world. It offers a critical examination of the book, on a chapter-by-chapter basis, for its techniques, themes and sources. This study seeks to provide a synthesis of what has been thought and said about the novel. It also contains a comprehensive bibliography of other critical studies of "Under the Volcano" (including book reviews). ... Read more

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This book is a working guide to the novels and short stories of Malcolm Lowry, attempting to look at his work rather than his private life. The author examines the relationship between the triumph of "Under the Volcano" and the supposed falling off in all that followed. The author has written many articles on Lowry and this book acts as a re-evaluation to some previous material, particularly about his short stories. Tony Bareham has also written articles on Shakespeare, George Crabbe and Anthony Trollope. ... Read more

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dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid
about 'Dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid' Douglas Day, Malcolm Lowry's biographer writes: "in early december 1945, malcolm and margerie bonner lowry flew from vancover, british columbia, to mexico city. they traveled by bus down to cuernavaca, where lowry had lived with his first wife, jan, in 1936, and where he had begun Under the volcano. on new year's eve lowry heard from jonathan cape, to whom the completed manuscript of under the volcano had been sent, that they could not accept the noel as it stood; many revisions were needed.
this much is the matter of 'dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid'. during the entire trip both lowry and his wife made notes as they went along-dialogues, descriptions, copies of signs along the way, all sorts of random obervations. some short time afterwards, lowry looked through all the notes of the mexican journey, exclaimed, 'by God, we have a novel here!' and fell to work on 'dark as the grave'.
seven hundred pages of notes and drafts were left by lowry in 1952 and not returned to before his death in 1957.
now, this book is no 'under the volcano'.
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Interesting But Not His Best
I read Under the Volcano, and have a read a number of his other works.
Clearly, Under The Volcano is his best novel but he has a number of other interesting works.

Lowry fought alcoholism much of his adult life and this is reflected in his writings including Ultramarine, Under the Volcano, and in the present work. The present novel was started in 1934, after the publication of Ultramarine.It is shorter than Ultramarine, just 76 pages. He worked on it for over two decades and it was still a work in progress when Lowry died 24 years later. It was first published until 1963 in the Paris Review. If you like Lowry, I recommend the collection of short stories Hear Us O Lord From Heaven They Dwelling Place in addition to Under the Volcano. There is a good sea story in that collection "Through the Panama" which is the source of the title of the collection.

The present story comes from Lowry's own life.Here the protagonist is finishing a sea voyage, landing in the summer heat of New York. The character checks into a New York mental hospital. It is about alcoholism and the time spent by the character, Bill Plantagenet, in the mental hospital - similar to Lowry's experience at Bellevue mental hospital in New York.

The novellacks symmetry and the coherent structure of a conventional novel -similar to the rambling style of Ultramarine.

This is an interesting and chaotic book about the characters in the hospital.

Probably, it is not as good as some of his other works and Under the Volcano is his best.
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It is the fiesta Day of the Dead in Mexico and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life, watched by his former wife and half-brother. Other books by the author include "Ultramarine". ... Read more