Poet, short-story writer, novelist, movie scriptwriter, legend-
ary alcoholic, jazz musician, sailor, golfer, student of the
Cabbala, mythopoeist, and indefatigable jester, Malcolm
Lowry died at the age of forty-eight in 1957 in Ripe, near
Lewes, Sussex, according to one version by taking twenty
sodium amytal tablets after a struggle with his wife over a
bottle of gin; according to another, by suffocation in his
sleep. He was buried in the churchyard of St. John the Bap-
tist in Ripe following an inquest by the coroner who pro-
nounced the cause of death, "Misfortune." The epitaph tells
something of his life as well, for misfortune, no doubt invited,
seemed to pursue him. His manuscripts were lost or burned
in conflagrations; he was accident-prone, and though physi-
cally very strong, suffered from a series of shattering illnesses;
he spent turbulent, dark nights and darker days in an alcoholic
penumbra filled with demonic "familiars." He led a life, for
the most part, of poverty and frustration and died known as
the author of a single book, Under the Volcano. There is a
certain justice in this fact since he himself thought of his
lifework as a single cycle, first as a modern Commedia of
which Under the Volcano was to be the Inferno, then as a
five-part series, and later as a cycle of seven novels. And
though infrequently he published poems and short stories, his
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