Under the Volcano -

Malcolm Lowry

Harper Perennial

2014

448 páginas

14h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780062371515

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead, 1938—his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.

Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.

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México no final dos anos 1930, esta é a história do último dia desesperado na vida de Geoffrey Firmin, um alcoólatra e ex-cônsul britânico. Sua ex-esposa, Yvonne, tenta consertar seu casamento, apesar da presença de dois dos ex-amantes dela: um diretor de cinema, Jacques Laruelle, e o meio-irmão de Geoffrey, Hugh.

A extraordinária justaposição quase expressionista do romance de imagens realistas com as percepções de um homem cada vez mais irracional assumi um poder simbólico ainda maior quando associado a uma visão da Europa à beira da guerra.