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Malcolm Lowry's reputation as a novelist rests primarily on the masterpiece Under the Volcano. Lowry is also well known for what he did not write; that is, for his anguished inability to complete his works. Under the Volcano is one of only two novels published in Lowry's lifetime; the bulk of his writings were still in various stages of composition when he died in 1957. In Forests of Symbols, Patrick A. McCarthy addresses the central enigma of the writer's life: his dependence on writing for his sense of identity and his fear that the process of composition would leave him with no identity apart from his work. Reading across Lowry's corpus - complete and incomplete, published and unpublished - McCarthy looks not only at the ways in which acts of reading, writing, and interpretation define Lowry's characters but also the threat they pose to those characters' sense of a coherent identity. In particular, McCarthy examines the extent to which characters like the Consul, the protagonist of Under the Volcano, embody problems inseparable from the author's anxiety about his status in relation to the world around him and to the texts (his own and others') that played so great a role in his

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Author

Patrick A. McCarthy

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820341699

Category

nonfiction