O My Aiken Lowry a literary cabaret

Under the Volcano

 

Leo and Lily Rimbaud continue with an examination of this novel, the Inferno of Lowry's version of the Divine Comedy ("The Voyage That Never Ends").  Topics include: literary and occult references in the novel, the Consul's drunkenness as a symbol of pre- World War II Europe and America, and Lowry's use of misunderstandings as a literary technique.