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Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition
By Malcolm Lowry, Vik Doyen, Miguel Mota and
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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).
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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.
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- 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" !
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