Abstract:In Malcolm Lowry's Lunar Caustic (1963), a situation exists in which the story's protagonist – failed jazz musician Bill Plantagenet – feels an obligation to counsel his companions in the psychiatric institution they find themselves confined to, and even to rescue them from it. Yet Lowry's narrative also exposes a certain level of complicity among the hospital's patients: attempts to “save” them from their fate must never, it seems tacitly acknowledged, take precedence over the personal fictions they have devi… Show more
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