Under the Volcano
Thomas Eckhardt
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Wed Feb 19 13:15:00 CST 2014
A great novel.
The Kabbalah plays an important role in it. Not the Madonna kind of
Kabbalah, I suspect, but certainly the Gershom Sholem kind.
Thomas
Am 19.02.2014 14:45, schrieb alice malice:
> There the bird was still, a long-winged dark furious shape, a little
> world of fierce despairs and dreams, and memories of floating high above
> Popocatepetl, mile on mile, to drop through the wilderness and alight,
> watching, in the timberline ghosts of ravaged mountain trees. With
> hurried quivering hands Yvonne began to unfasten the cage. The bird
> fluttered out of it and alighted at her feet, hesitated, took flight to
> the roof of El Petate, then abruptly flew off through the dusk. . . up
> soaring, with a sudden cleaving of pinions into the deep dark blue pure
> sky above, in which at that moment appeared one star.
>
> On this day in 1947 Malcolm Lowry's /Under the Volcano/ was published.
>
> http://val.fm/everything-merges-with-the-night-brian-eno-mp3/
>
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