Ebook233 pages1,560 hours
Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition
By Malcolm Lowry, Vik Doyen, Miguel Mota and
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this ebook
Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry. This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, the creative process that developed from a rather pessimistic and misanthropic vision of the world as a madhouse (The Last Address, 1936), via the apocalyptic metaphors of a world on the brink of Armageddon (The Last Address, 1939), to a world that, in spite of all its troubles, leaves room for self-irony and humanistic concern (Swinging the Maelstrom,1942–1944).
Author
Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) was born in England, and he attended Cambridge University. He spent much of his life traveling and lived in Paris, New York, Mexico, Los Angeles, Canada, and Italy, among other places. He is the author of numerous works, including Ultramarine and Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place.
Read more from Malcolm Lowry
Ultramarine: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place: Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5October Ferry to Gabriola: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In Ballast to the White Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under the Volcano: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Swinging the Maelstrom
Related ebooks
Hurry on Down Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Ballast to the White Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53 books to know Literary Modernism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOctober Ferry to Gabriola: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Book Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn a Glass Darkly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Planetarium Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMathilda Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe The Works Vol 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Golden Bowl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Woodlanders Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Russia: Volume 4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGreat Short Stories by English and Irish Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel after David Bowie Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLucio's Confession Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Virgin Soil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTerritorial Rights: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Walk On The Wild Side Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Troll Garden and Selected Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaggie: A Girl of the Streets Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Lodger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Clarkton: A Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Barks and Purrs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsManhattan Transfer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Cemetery for Bees Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCity of Angels: or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud / A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Willows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Literary Criticism For You
Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Between the World and Me: by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Circe: by Madeline Miller | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5SUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speed Reading: How to Read a Book a Day - Simple Tricks to Explode Your Reading Speed and Comprehension Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Swinging the Maelstrom
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a joy to have this crtitical edition, which brings together these different versions of work that Lowry himself held so dear. Ackerley's notes are as fulsome and helpful as ever, and supplement the texts brilliantly; likewise Mota and Doyen's introduction. This is a paradigm of whata critical edition should be. Please, do the same for "Dark as the Grave" !
Book preview
Swinging the Maelstrom - Malcolm Lowry
ie book_preview_excerpt.html
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1