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Under the Volcano is a novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947. The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the Mexican city of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead in November 1938.
Jun 13, 1984 · Under the Volcano: Directed by John Huston. With Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Ignacio López Tarso. A day in the life of a self-destructive British consul in Mexico on the eve of World War II.
Under the Volcano tells the indelibly haunting tale of Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul living in Mexico in 1938, assiduously drowning himself in alcohol. Like much of the desolate landscape, he is at times “so reconciled to [his] own ruin no sadness touches [him].”
"Under the Volcano" is the story of the last day in his drinking. He lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in the years just before World War II. He is not really the British consul anymore: he was only a vice consul, anyway, and now that has been stripped from him, and he simply drinks.
Apr 10, 2007 · Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him. Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico.
Through personal accounts and backed by a blistering soundtrack, Under the Volcano is the definitive account of George Martin's Studio at the end of the world, a place that generated a...
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Under the Volcano, masterwork of Malcolm Lowry, published in 1947 and reissued in 1962. Set in Mexico in the late 1930s, Under the Volcano is the story of the last desperate day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a dispirited alcoholic and former British consul.
