Bajo el volcan / Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Bajo el volcan / Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Una de las grandes obras maestras del siglo XX.
Bajo el volcan relata las ultimas horas de un hombre en su descenso moral y fisico hacia las profundidades del fracaso y la muerte.
Es Dia de Muertos y Geoffrey Firmin pasea por las cantinas de Quauhnahuac mientras dos volcanes, el Popocatepetl y el Iztaccihuatl, se asoman como tragico recordatorio de la crisis que tiene con Yvonne, quien acaba de regresar a Mexico como ultimo recurso para evitar la caida de su matrimonio y de Firmin, su esposo.
En 1947 Malcolm Lowry publico en lengua inglesa una de las obras fundamentales para las letras mexicanas: Bajo el volcan, una suerte de premonicion que deviene en profecia, el relato delirante de un hombre arruinado por el alcohol, de los amantes fuera de su elemento, su Eden… Quauhnahuac es esa ciudad tempestad -tan real como imaginada- de tabernas para beber hasta la sobriedad, de perros callejeros, de indigenas moribundos, de calles serpenteantes por las que desciende una procesion durante el Dia de Muertos. Una ciudad poetica, el mito de la autodestruccion dominado por dos volcanes y esgrimido por medio de la cabala y el mezcal.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul’s debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life.
Under the Volcano is set during the most fateful day of the consul’s life-the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac to rescue him and their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse.
Yvonne’s mission is to save the consul is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul’s half-brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.
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