FUNDAÇÃO MALCOLM LOWRY

FUNDAÇÃO MALCOLM LOWRY

Este blogue foi criado com o intuito de unir a comunidade lowryana de todo o mundo, a fim de trocar ideias e informação sobre o autor, promover a organização de conferências, colóquios e outras actividades relacionadas com a promoção da sua obra. Este é o primeiro sítio trilingue feito no México sobre o tema. Cuernavaca, México.


Malcolm Lowry Foundation


This blog was created to comunicate all lowry scholars, fans and enthusiastics from around the world in order to promote the interchange of materials and information about the writer as well as organize events such as lectures, colloquiums and other activities related to the work of the author. Cuernavaca, Mexico.


FONDATION MALCOLM LOWRY

Ce blog a été crée dans le but de rapprocher la communauté lowryenne du monde entier afin de pouvoir échanger des idées et des informations sur l'auteur ainsi que promouvoir et organiser des conférences, colloques et autres activités en relation avec son oeuvre. Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexique.

sábado, 12 de enero de 2008

LaCatrina


A Posada's engrave depicting a dead Upper Class Lady, this is part of the Mexican tradition and "culture of death".
Un grabado de Posada mostrando una mujer de clase alta, parte de la tradición mexicana de la "cultura de la muerte".

popo


The Popocatepetl (smoking mountain in Nahuatl, the Aztec language) seen from a small town in Puebla. The volcano made an eruption in the year 2000. A very beautiful mountain. Together with the Iztaccihuatl (the sleeping lady) they are the great frame of Mexico City and surroundings.
El Popocatépetl (o montaña humeante en nahuatl, la lengua azteca) visto desde Amecameca en Puebla. El volcán hizo erupción en el año 2000. Hermosa montaña que junto con la Iztaccíhuatl, o mujer dormida, son el gran marco de la ciudad de México y sus alrededores.

lowry


This is a mythical image of Lowry, it shows him drunk and about to fall to the ground with a Bols bottle, great image!
Esta es una mítica imagen de Lowry; aparece borracho, a punto de caerse con una botella de Bols, ¡buena toma!

lowrys


The Lowrys in Cuernavaca in a happy mood in their first time here, 1936-37. It was a house in an indeterminate place north of Humboldt street close to Laruelle's house.
Los Lowry en Cuernavaca muy contentos en su primera visita, 1936-37. Esta era una vivienda en un lugar indeterminado sobre la calle Humboldt, al norte de la casa de Laruelle.

jan&marge


Here you can appreciate how physicaly similar Jan and Marge were. They were both models for the fictional Yvonne of the Volcano. Aquí podemos apreciar la similitud física entre Jan y Marge, ambas fueron modelo para la ficticia Yvonne del "Volcán."
Aqui podemos verificar as semelhanças físicas entre Jan e Marge. Ambas serviram de modelo para a fictícia Yvonne de "Debaixo do Vulcão"

Jan


A very beautiful picture, showing a gorgeous woman. Jan after leaving Lowry and back in California, she started a new life after getting a divorce. Later she would write her book: Inside the volcano (2000) in which she comments much about her intimate life with and without Lowry. She died in 2001. Hermosa fotografía que muestra cuan bella era Jan. La toma es poco tiempo luego de haber dejado a Lowry y de regreso en California donde empezó una nueva vida después de obtener el divorcio. En el año 2000 publicó "Dentro del volcán" en el cual comenta sobre sus intimidades con Lowry y sin él. Murió en el 2001.
Bonita fotografia mostrando quão bela era Jan. A foto foi tirada pouco tempo depois ter deixado Lowry, quando Jan regressou à Califórnia, aí começando uma nova vida, depois de obter o divórcio. No ano 2000 publicou "Inside the Volcano" ("Dentro do vulcão"), onde fala da sua intimidade com e sem Lowry. Faleceu em 2001.

Larulle's house


The model of Larulle's house is now the Hotel Bajo el volcán, located just one block from the Cortes Palace, downtown Cuernavaca on 19 Humboldt Street. It was here where Lowry wrote his apology of Under the volcano for Jonathan Cape and where he received the news that it was going to be published, he also tried to commit suicide in here. Image taken from Ackerly's site.
El modelo para la casa de Laruelle es ahora el hotel Bajo el volcán, situado justo a una cuadra del Palacio de Cortés, en el centro de Cuernavaca en el número 19 de la calle Humboldt (Nicaragua en la novela) Aquí fue donde Lowry escribió la apología de su novela para Johnatan Cape y donde posteriormente recibió la noticia de la publicación de ésta, también intentó suicidarse aquí.

spanishedition


The Spanish edition of Under the Volcano -Bajo el volcán- translated by the mexican scholar and friend Raúl Ortiz y Ortiz has a cover in which there appears a serigraphy by the Mexican artist Alberto Gironlla about Volcano, the book was first published in Spanish in 1964 by Ediciones Era, Mexico City.

the book


This is a first edition with an excellent cover of the book; the image shows Nicaragua street, the ravine and the volcano, present editions show worse things.

calle nicaragua


Humboldt street is the model for the Nicaragua Street in Under the Volcano, here is a picture taken from a point close to Larulle's house pointing south Cuernavaca.