[Tampoco he podido este año, pero después de leer éste párrafo de la introducción de Michael Schmidt a la edición de Penguin (2000), me siento mejor. Mentes más brillantes han fallado antes.]
[...] Many readers find it hard to break into Under the Volcano. Their difficulty is the shadow of the trouble Lowry had in writing it. Like other major novels of its kind - Moby Dick, for instance, and Nostromo (Melville and Conrad meat a great deal to the young Lowry, and both authors struggled hard for those books); like The Rainbow, and Thomas Mann's Dr Faustus - it can take several attempts before one really gets going. Readers who have visited the novels 'terrain' - landscapes, plazas, the very buildings - wrestle with the narrative strategies. After three false stars I first read the book through when I was twenty-two, even though I grew up in the very streets that Lowry describes [...].
He conseguido leer los cuatro primeros capítulos, pero este libro no es para matar los 10 minutos previos al sueño. Too taxing for a tired, teetotaller brain.
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