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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. The book takes its name from the two volcanoes, Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, that overshadow Quauhnahuac and the characters.
- Malcolm Lowry
- 1947
Jan 17, 2019 · Our tragic hero is former-British Consul Geoffrey Firmin, who lingers hunch-shouldered in an empty cantina, having booze for breakfast as the annoyed employees set the place up for the day’s business.
It is the Day of Death in Mexico and, stranded in the colorful fiesta gaiety, Geoffrey Firmin—ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man—lives out the last day of his life.
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- Malcolm Lowry
Jul 20, 2017 · The novel, set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead in 1938, details the final 24 hours in the life of a doomed British consul named Geoffrey Firmin.
- Mark Goodall
Jacques Laruelle, a French film director. His role is to recount the story of the day of Geoffrey and Yvonne’s deaths. Jacques spent a period of his youth with Geoffrey and Hugh; therefore, he...
Under the Volcano begins on the Day of the Dead, 1939, in Quauhnahuac, Mexico. M. Jacques Laruelle and Dr. Vigil remember their deceased friend, the Consul. The Consul, Geoffrey Firmin, died a year ago to the day, and the two men wonder if they or anyone else could have prevented his demise.
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Oct 22, 2007 · In six-hundred-plus pages, he recounts the last day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a fallen British diplomat, in a Mexican village. While an eruption of the Popoca-te-petl volcano threatens, mescal transports Firmin back into his memories, to his internal world, but also through the present, where he confronts his brother and his estranged wife.
