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In The New York Review of Books, critic Michael Wood wrote, "Under the Volcano is a great book about missing grandeur, about the specialised tragedy that lies in the unavailability of the tragedy you want." [38] Chris Power, writing in The Guardian, said: "I came to the book knowing only its reputation as a masterpiece of English modernism. I ...
Magda Bogin (born 1950) is a New York-based writer and literary translator who has produced a body of work that straddles fiction, poetry, opera and non-fiction. Born in Manhattan , she has lived and worked extensively in Mexico, France, Italy and Russia.
Jared Mobarak of The Film Stage gave the film a grade of B+, writing that "[Damian] Kocur has given form to the purgatory of survival in times of horror." [7] David Katz of Cineuropa wrote, "From an immediately pressurised opening, Under the Volcano drifts into a pleasing and paradoxically hypnotic kind of stasis, shot with oft-deteriorated available light and in shallow focus with long lenses ...
“Why is there snow if it’s a volcano?” Fedir (Fedir Pugachov) throws out a seemingly innocent question to his family while wandering around Mount Teide in Spain. But it’s one of many that ...
Under the Volcano is a 1984 drama film directed by John Huston and starring Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, and Anthony Andrews, based on Malcolm Lowry's semi-autobiographical 1947 novel. The film follows the last 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin (Finney), an alcoholic British former consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac on ...
The music documentary “Under the Volcano” is essentially a travelogue — not so much for its setting, the island of Monserrat in the West Indies, although there are luscious drone shots ...
The 1940 Under The Volcano (1994), novel La Mordida edited by Patrick A. McCarthy (1996), novel In Ballast to the White Sea (2014), novel; Edited by Patrick A. McCarthy, Notes by Chris Ackerley, Foreword by Vik Doyen, University of Ottawa Press , ISBN 978-0-7766-2208-8
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