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Equally as important as Pursued by Furies
I heard excerpts of this book at a symposium for Lowry in 1996. The person reading this memoir said it would only be available after Gabriel's death so I'm assuming she has passed on. I was very moved during the reading in 1996 and I was no less moved when I finally was able to read the entire book. Gabriel has a very poetic and flowing style of her own. She is very honest throughout the book as she writes about her tragic relationship with Lowry. This book won't make you happy but it will give you insight into their relationship that you can't find anywhere else. On that level, it is as equally important as Pursued by Furies. In the end, we get to see a sympathetic character in Jan Gabriel that counters Lowry's portrayal of her in Under the Volcano. We also get an insights on Lowry from the most important period of his creative life. ... Read more

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Although his literary reputation rests primarily on his novels, Malcolm Lowry (1909--57) considered himself to be a poet, and he composed an extensive poetic canon. No reliable edition of Lowry's poetry has been available until now. Increasing critical interest in all aspects of Lowry's life and work prompted the preparation of this complete edition of his poetry, in which the poems are located, identified, dated, arranged, collated, annotated and explicated by biographical, critical, and textual introductions. The sections of Lowry's text are chronologically arranged to reflect his artistic development and are preceded by short essays describing the specific issues raised by those poems. The opening section -- Lowry's poetic juvenilia -- reflects his fascination for the sea, as does the ensuing section, "The lighthouse invites the storm", his first collection of poetry, a sequence of related semi-autobiographical poems, which depicts the adventures of the characters Peter Gaunt and Vigil Forget. Lowry composed most of "The lighthouse" in Mexico; following it in this edition is a small group of uncollected Mexican poems.The next two sections of text -- Dollarton 1940--54: Selected poems 1947 and Dollarton 1940--54: Uncollected poems -- reflect and record the experience of Lowry's sojourn on the lower mainland, and its deep effect on him. All of the poems are fully annotated. The appendices contain sections of song lyrics and undated fragments, as well as a remarkably coherent group of love poems written between 1949 and Lowry's death in 1957. This edition provides Lowryans with ready access to the latest determinable authorial versions of, and the textual histories for, the canon's 490 poems, which range in date from 1925 to 1957. By using this edition, readers will be able to reconstruct every version of every Lowry poem. "Kathleen Scherf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.". ... Read more

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From 1939 to 1954, Malcolm Lowry lived and wrote in a shack near Dollarton, in North Vancouver. It was here that he revised and polished Under the Volcano until it was almost ready for publication, and here that he experienced his happiest and most productive years. His posthumously published works are filled with references to the landscape and lifestyle he enjoyed while living in BC.Now, for the first time, these Vancouver years are the focus of a Lowry study. The words and letters of AI Purdy, Earle Birney, George Robertson, and many others shed light on the great novelists's method of working, his view of the world and the fascinating, paradoxical character that was Malcolm Lowry. Extensively illustrated with photographs of people and places Lowry knew, Malcolm Lowry: Vancouver Days includes maps and a selected bibliography. ... Read more

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From the beginning, John Sutherland recognized that his literary gifts lay in criticism rather than in poetry. His independence from the academy and his largely autodidactic training gave him a unique perspective as a critic of Canadian literature. What these letters document, beyond a purely personal struggle, is a period (1942-1956) of great importance in the development of Canadian poetry, and it is above all the nuts and bolts of that development that they bring into keen relief: the economics of publishing books and literary magazines in the days before The Canada Council, and the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of trying wholly to live a life in literature at that time. ... Read more

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This book examines the uses of myth and symbol in Lowry and Mann's major works and finds some remarkable similarities that exist because of structural tradition. Both authors are consciously and unconsciously continuing a tradition that can be traced to the beginning of literature in the Western world. Contents: Introduction; Lowry's "Under the Volcano and Mann's àIThe Magic Mountain;" Recurrence of Patterns and Parallels in Other Works of Lowry and Mann; The Monomyth in Other Works of Lowry and Mann: A Non-Comparative View; Lowry and Mann within the Context of the Modern Novel. ... Read more

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Since the publication of "Under the Volcano in 1947, controversy has raged around the figure of Malcolm Lowry. Both the novels and their creator have remained enigmatic: is "Under the Volcano", his major work, a realist novel, autobiographical, sybolist? Is it best approached linguistically, psychoanalytically, when set in its cultural context? Lowry has also defied definitive comment, partly due to myths he propagated about himself, which help confuse the historicl record. In these essays, specially written for this collection to mark the eightieth anniversary of Lowry's birth, ten writers give their own angle on the man and his work, offering new views to counteract the old. The biographical area is reassessed by a contemporary of Lowry's and by an examination of the very methodology of biography. Lowry is compared with Joyce and with "The Lost Weekend", and read in terms of Mikhail Bakhtin. He is examined in relation to his many father - figures, and to the characteristics of his language. He is placed in the Modernist context, and his "Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place" has its shapes examined. Fittingly finally, a poem is offered at his graveside. ... Read more