Author: Malcolm Lowry
- Fiction
- Debolsillo
- ISBN: 9788466359849
- Release Date: 04-28-2022
Synopsis
Una de las indiscutidas obras maestras del siglo XX, Bajo el volcán relata las últimas horas de la decadencia de un hombre apresado en el alcoholismo.
Geoffrey Firmin, excónsul británico en México, se ha instalado en Quauhnáhuac, a la vera del famoso volcán, sin otra intención que dar rienda suelta a su alcoholismo.
En la jornada más fatídica de su vida, que no por azar coincide con el día de los muertos, su mujer llega a la ciudad para tratar de rescatarlo y salvar su matrimonio. Sin embargo, este própósito choca con la presencia de quienes ayudan sin saberlo a Firmin en su adicción.
Contra un trasfondo a la vez festivo y siniestro, los asuntos del día se van encaminando poco a poco hacia un final inevitable, mientras se perfila un retrato no solo de un hombre volcado en la autodestrucción, sino de toda una generación fascinada con la muerte.
"Lowry's masterpiece. . . has a claim to being regarded as one of the ten most consequential works of fiction produced in [the twentieth] century." — Los Angeles Times
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.
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—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.
