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Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid (1968)

de Malcolm Lowry

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Unpublished in his lifetime, this book returns to the Mexico of the author's Under the Volcano. Sigbjorn Wilderness descends into an inferno of abysses, labyrinths and demons to confront his past and his destiny. His search finally takes him to the scene of the worst terrors of his drunken past.
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A dark and difficult work, which as is usual with Lowry, explores the less heroic side of life. He returned to Mexico, following the period he wrote of in "Under The Volcano" and the editors, one a friend, the other his wife have assembled the journals he managed to write during this return. It is a very sad assembly, but as usual, lightened by the tortured mastery of English by the writer. A necessary book for those requiring more material in their assessment of Lowry. Hail and farewell, for he struggled mightily with that implacable foe, the indifferent universe. ( )
  DinadansFriend | Jul 3, 2019 |
Bajo el volcán tiene en Oscuro como la tumba donde yace mi amigo su extraña, fascinante continuación. Aquí aparece un alter ego, más de Malcolm Lowry: Sigbjørn Wilderness, un escritor dipsómano no menos apasionado por la identidad individual, la tragedia humana y el humor, y por ese extraño lugar del planeta y del alma que conocemos con el nombre de México, y que ahora es, para Wilderness, un lugar de peregrinaje: especie de perdida tierra prometida donde años antes las claves de su alma se extraviaron, entre los vapores del mezcal y el encontronazo con una cultura muy diferente. A su muerte en 1957, Malcolm Lowry dejó un manuscrito de 700 páginas que su viuda, Margerie Bonner, y su biógrafo, Douglas Day, editaron en la forma actual. ( )
  HavanaIRC | Jun 30, 2016 |
My habit of picking books to read based upon interesting titles led me astray this time. I haven't read Malcolm Lowry's much lauded "Under the Volcano" so many of the references in "Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid" were right over my head.

Apparently written after Lowry died from notes he made during a real-life journey to Mexico, "Dark As..." explores the colossally bad idea of taking your second wife on a vacation to visit the places where your marriage to your first wife finally went kaput and you wandered soused wondering what to do with yourself. Cue more soused wanderings and a few philosophical ramblings.

This was a very difficult book to get into -- the first 75 pages document the flight from Canada to Mexico. But it started to grow on me as it went on and I adjusted to Lowry's writing style. Overall, the book seemed to ramble a bit but had entertaining bits interspersed in it too. ( )
2 vote amerynth | May 18, 2012 |
A writer journeys to Mexico where he was inspired to write a book, one that hasn't exactly shaken the world, and his latest keeps being rejected. Mexico is full of memories, and while much has changed in his life, he doesn't seem to have. Sigbjørn Wilderness has a new wife, the same drinking habit, indeed the journey seems to open the floodgates on this, but he can't seem to write. Sigbjørn is on the edge, both mentally and physically, with the drink pushing him further towards it.

A bit of an odd one, but I got caught up in it, Lowry certainly has an entertaining style. The tortured meanderings of a writer seemed very authentic to me, another reason why I'd recommend the book. ( )
  soffitta1 | Mar 28, 2012 |
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The sense of speed, of gigantic transition, of going southward, downward, over three countries, the tremendous mountain ranges, the sense at once of descent, tremendous regression, and of moving, not moving, but in another way dropped straight down the world, straight down the map, as of the imminence of something great, phenomenal, and yet the moving shadow of the plane below them, the eternal moving cross, less fleeting and more substantial than the dim shadw of the significance of what they were doing that Sigborn held in his mind: any yeyt it was possible only to focuson that shadow, and at that only for short periods: they were enclosed by the thingitself as by the huge bouncing machine with its vast monotonous purring, pouring din, in which they sat none too comfortabl, Sigborn with his foot up embarrassedly, for he had taken his shoe off, a moving, defeaning, continually renewed time-defeating destiny by which they were enclosed but of which they were able only to see the inside, for so to speak of the streamlined platinum-colored object itself they could only glimpse a wing, a propeller, through the small, foolish, narrow oblong windows.
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Unpublished in his lifetime, this book returns to the Mexico of the author's Under the Volcano. Sigbjorn Wilderness descends into an inferno of abysses, labyrinths and demons to confront his past and his destiny. His search finally takes him to the scene of the worst terrors of his drunken past.

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