Malcolm Lowry

Clarence Malcolm Lowry ( born July 28, 1909 in Birkenhead, † June 27, 1957 (suicide ) in Ripe, East Sussex ) was a British writer.

Life

Malcolm Lowry was the fourth son of the cotton merchant Arthur Osborn Lowry (1870-1945) and his wife Evelyn Lowry, born bottom ( 1873-1950 ). Because of a chronic inflammation of the eyes had to live isolated until the fourteenth year of life the child; it was not allowed to play, read and write yet. Only from 1923 onwards visited Lowry in Cambridge at The Leys School. During school Lowry youth champion in golf and his brother Stuart Lowry was introduced to the works of writers Honoré de Balzac, Eugene O'Neill, and James Joyce. From May to October 1927 Lowry hired as chamber steward on the SS Pyrrhus, which went to the Far East. In 1928, he had eight weeks of classes at the Weber 's School of Modern German in Bonn, Koblenz Road 100 (renamed Adenauer Allee), where Karlheinz Schmidthüs one of his teachers was. In the summer of 1929, Lowry was a student of the twenty- year-older writer Conrad Aiken in Cambridge. Together they worked on Lowry's manuscript Ultramarine. From this encounter a paternal role evolved for Aiken, about which he writes: I was his father. In October 1929 Lowry began studying at St Catharine 's College in Cambridge, England. From July to September 1930, he undertook a voyage to Norway, where he met the writer Nordahl Grieg. In May of 1932 Lowry made ​​his final exam.

After studying Malcolm Lowry held up in France and Spain. In the summer of 1933, he met in Granada, the Spaniard January Gabrial know. On January 6, 1934 Malcolm Lowry and Jan Gabrial married in Paris. A few weeks later his wife traveled alone in USA. Only in the fall of 1934, the couple meets again in New York. In June 1935, Lowry kept on in the Psychiatric Division of Bellevue Hospital Center for ten days. In September 1936, the couple first moved to Los Angeles, from October to December 1936 by ship from San Diego to Acapulco and then to Cuernavaca ( Mexico). Here Malcolm Lowry wrote to the year 1937 in the first version of his novel Under the Volcano. In December, the couple separated permanently; They were divorced on 1 November 1940.

In July 1938 Malcolm Lowry Mexico left and traveled through Nogales back to Los Angeles. In this city he began the second version of Under the Volcano. On 7 June 1939, he met Margerie Bonner know. A month later, Lowry went to Vancouver, located in the southwest of the province of British Columbia on the west coast of Canada. Margerie Bonner followed him in August 1939. Lowry was working on the third version of the novel Under the Volcano. In August 1940, the couple moved into a squatter hut in Dollarton the fjord Burrard Inlet. On December 2, 1940 married Macolm Lowry and Margerie Bonner. The writer sent the third novelization to his agent Harold Matson. Nevertheless, Lowry In 1941, a fourth version, which he finished on Christmas Eve 1944. On 7 June 1944, the hut burned down, was rebuilt in the spring of 1945. Two weeks after the fire, the couple drove by Oakville (Ontario) and to Niagara -on-the -Lake. In the years from the end of 1945 to the end of 1947 they took many trips on the American continent. In the winter of 1947, the couple traveled together to Europe, where it remained until January 1949. From 1949 to mid-1955 survived the Lowry back in Canada and the United States. In June 1955 she returned to England. A few days after a trip to the Lake District Malcolm Lowry died from an overdose of sleeping pills.

Works

The main works of Malcolm Lowry 's his novel Under the Volcano. The topics that will be reflected in Lowry's novels, the desperate search for identity, the lure of distance, especially the seafaring life, his interest in the Kabbalah, whose symbolism the books are traversed, and the alcohol as a passion of his life. For the German -speaking audience the author was propagated during his tenure as editor at Ernst Klett Verlag by Wolfgang Rohner Radegast.

Bibliography

  • Ultramarine. Cape, London in 1933 and revised by Lippincott, Philadelphia 1962 German edition: Ultramarine. Foreword by Magerie Lowry. Translated from the English by Werner Schmitz. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-499-25167-1
  • First German edition: Under the Volcano. Translated by Clemens ten Holder. Klett, Stuttgart 1951
  • Second German Edition: Under the Volcano. Foreword by the author in 1948. Translated from the English by Susanna Rademacher and reviewed by Karin Graf. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-498-03828-1 ISBN 3-499-13510-8 and 1994
  • German edition: Thirty-five Mezcal in Cuautla. Translated from the English by Joachim Sartorius. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983
  • German edition: The last address. Translated from the English by Martin Kluger. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-518-01539-7
  • German edition: Dark as the grave in which my friend is buried. Translated from the English by Werner Schmitz. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-499-25178-7
  • German edition: October Ferry to Gabriola. Introduction by Wolf Wondratschek. Translated from the English by Susanna Rademacher. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 3-499-25157-4.
  • Wolf Wondratschek: The loneliness of men. Mexican sonnets ( Lowry songs). Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-257-01654-9. Wolfgang Rihm in 1982 / 1983.
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