Blending a drunkard’s visions with ethylic sarcasms expressed in free reported speech interspersed with Spanish sentences and quotations from Dante’s ' Inferno', Malcolm Lowry also makes perfect use of time and space in order to achieve maximum effectiveness. What makes the difference here is that the novel works, it creates a powerful reality. Yet, all ‘universal’ novels are not good novels. Malcolm Lowry’s cult novel portrays Geoffrey Firmin, an ex-Consul living in Mexico who slowly drowns himself in alcohol – thus consciously committing slow suicide – and yet who is unexpectedly killed under unforeseen circumstances.Īll the themes of the novel are universal: life and death, love and hatred, joy and sadness, self-determination and fate, man’s littleness and the Universe’s immensity.
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