Malcolm Lowry - Chronicler of humanity's lower depths
John Hartley Williams profiling Malcolm Lowry, describes him as the " unsurpassed chronicler of humanity's lower depths."
More than most writers, the circumstances of Malcolm Lowry's death are peculiarly relevant to a consideration of his work, since excess of every kind was both his method and his subject.
Was it advanced alcoholism that eventually killed him? His great, tragic novel Under the Volcano, recounts the last day in the life of a drunkard, ending with his murder and the contemptuous disposal of his corpse into a ravine in Mexico.
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