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Swinging the Maelstrom

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An annotated scholarly edition including versions of the Malcolm Lowry novella that at different times was titled “The Last Address”, “Swinging the Maelstrom” and “Lunar Caustic.”
  • 28 November 2013
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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).

Published in English.

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Price: $24.95
Pages: 244
Publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Series: Canadian Literature Collection
Publication Date: 28 November 2013
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780776608020
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, FICTION / Literary
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Vik Doyen is Professor Emeritus and former vice-dean of the Arts Faculty and head of the English Department at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He did archival research in the Malcolm Lowry Collection at the University of British Columbia for his doctoral dissertation.