Pursued by Furies (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gordon Bowker
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1909-1957
- Setting: England, France, Spain, the United States, Mexico, Canada, Haiti, and Italy
- Principal Characters: (Clarence) Malcolm Lowry, Arthur Osborne Lowry, Evelyn Bowden Lowry, Arthur Russell Lowry, Jan Vanderheim Gabrial, Margerie Bonner Lowry, Conrad Aiken, Nordahl Grieg
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Suicide, Literature, Writing, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Novelists, Depression, mental
- Locales: France, United States, Haiti, Mexico, Spain, England, Canada, Italy
The brief, tragic life of novelist Malcolm Lowry had a strong legendary quality. In his own writing Lowry projected fictional versions of his experiences repeatedly into contexts redolent with famous precursors from myth and literature. His lifelong struggles with alcoholism, chronic guilt and self-doubt, spiritual exile, and despair have provided ample material for biographers. Douglas Day’s award-winning Malcolm Lowry: A Biography (1973) and the highly acclaimed documentary film Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life of Malcolm Lowry (1977), written and directed by Donald...
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