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Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry Querido, Amsterdam, refered to by: Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Ulysses James Joyce [Klein verhaal van een grote gekte] Rob Kappen Other excerpts excerpt: Walking Into the Night Olaf Olafsson excerpt: Vita Melania Mazzucco excerpt: Campfire Julia Franck excerpt: Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry excerpt: Reading &cetera Pieter Steinz excerpt: Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra excerpt: Homecoming Natasha Radojcic excerpt: The One-Room Schoolhouse Jim Heynen excerpt: The Egyptologist Arthur Phillips excerpt: Prague Arthur Phillips excerpt: The Diary of Géza Csáth Géza Csáth excerpt: Lost in the City Edward P. Jones excerpt: The Known World Edward P. Jones excerpt: Zorro Isabel Allende excerpt: The Last Window Giraffe Péter Zilahy excerpt: The Sea John Banville excerpt: Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe excerpt: Ragtime E.L. Doctorow excerpt: The Fifty Year Sword Mark Z. Danielewski excerpt: American Purgatorio John Haskell excerpt: The Restless Supermarket Ivan Vladislavic excerpt: Envy Kathryn Harrison excerpt: Watt Samuel Beckett excerpt: Bitter Fruit Achmat Dangor excerpt: Kreutzer Sonata Leo N. Tolstoy excerpt: Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline excerpt: Embers Sándor Márai excerpt: Being Your Own Friend Wilhelm Schmid excerpt: The Gaze Elif Shafak excerpt: Atonement Ian McEwan excerpt: In Babylon Marcel Möring excerpt: Pavel & I Dan Vyleta excerpt: Black Mamba Boy Nadifa Mohamed excerpt: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk David Sedaris the ledge - flash version* *	English UNDER THE VOLCANO — MALCOLM LOWRY This novel, to use a phrase of Edmund Wilson, has for its subject the forces that dwell within man and lead him to look upon himself with terror. Its subject is also the fall of man, his remorse, his incessant struggle towards the light under the weight of the past, which is his destiny. The allegory is that of the Garden of Eden, the garden representing the world from which we are now even a little more under the threat of ejection than when I wrote this book. On one level, the drunkenness of the Consul may be regarded as symbolizing the universal drunkenness of war, of the period that precedes war, no matter when. Throughout the twelve chapters, the destiny of my hero can be considered in its relationship to the destiny of humanity. (from Lowry's preface to the French translation, 1948) 1.
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