THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER OF ASPINWALL HOW TO

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER OF ASPINWALL HOW TO

The article contends that the condition of the lighthouse keeper anticipates that of the Lowry protagonist who in “Through the Panama” fears death by his own book, or, to take Lowry’s other phrase, being “Joyced in his own petard.” Basing her analysis on Mieke Bal’s idea of a participatory exhibition where the viewer decides how to approach a video installation, and can do so by engaging with a single detail, Filipczak treats Lowry’s text as a multimodal work where such a detail may give rise to a reassessment of the reading experience. What Lowry stresses in his intertextual allusion is the perilous illumination that the eponymous lighthouse keeper experiences. Lowry mentions a short story “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Nobel prize winner for the whole of his literary output. For fans of the novel Under the Volcano, this collection of storiesmany of them published for the first time posthumouslyprovides great insight into the author’s genius. The article offers a reading of “Through the Panama” by Malcom Lowry in light of an intertext connected with Polish literature. Access Free The Lighthouse Keeper Of Aspinwall Henryk Sienkiewicz Seven stories and novellas by the author of Under the Volcano, a master of twentieth-century fiction.

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