In Ballast to the White Sea:The Springboard for Russian Influences on Malcolm Lowry’s Visionary Intellect

• Main Author: Foxcroft, Nigel
• Other Authors: Helen, Tookey, Biggs, Bryan
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Liverpool University Press 2020
• Subjects: Malcolm Lowry; In Ballast to the White Sea; Gogol; Dostoyevsky; Chekhov; Ouspensky; Eisenstein; Pudovkin; White Sea; Russia; Russian literature; Archangel; Grieg; Communism; National Socialism; Nazi; 1930s; Dead Souls; Crime and Punishment; Spengler; The Decline of the West; Hitler; Stalin; The Great Terror; The Great Purge; spiritual; Kataev; CPSU; The End of St Petersburg; Russian Revolution; Russian history; Ultramarine; Kerensky; Melville; Moby Dick; Soviet Union; USSR; Isaac D'Israeli; The Six Follies of Science; Lusitania; D. H. Lawrence; Nazi Germany; Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; Hermann Goring; Norway; Slavic; Nordic; Baltic; St Petersburg; Leningrad; Lowry
• Online Access: https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/0437c5d9-97dd-46c7-9e84-5486d06b9525; https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/files/10359154/05_Foxcroft_ed_REV_nhf_v._2_1_.pdf; https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/52660/

This chapter analyses the significance of Russian literary and political influences referred to in Malcolm Lowry’s major works and correspondence. In Ballast to the White Sea (1936), in particular, acts as a springboard for flashbacks to a hint of Russia in the Dairen of Ultramarine (1933) and for f...