Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition (Canadian Literature Collection)

by Malcolm Lowry

Vik Doyen (Editor), Miguel Mota (Introduction), Chris Ackerley (Notes), Patrick A. McCarthy (Foreword), Paul Tiessen (Foreword), and Philip Surrey (Cover Designer)

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Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry. This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, the creative process that developed from a rather pessimistic and misanthropic vision of the world as a madhouse (The Last Address, 1936), via the apocalyptic metaphors of a world on the brink of Armageddon (The Last Address, 1939), to a world that, in spite of all its troubles, leaves room for self-irony and humanistic concern (Swinging the Maelstrom,1942-1944).
  • ISBN10 0776608029
  • ISBN13 9780776608020
  • Publish Date 28 November 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint University of Ottawa Press