SOURCE: "Hear Us O Lord and Lowry's Micro/Macro Text," in Swinging the Maelstrom: New Perspectives on Malcolm Lowry, edited by Sherrill Grace, McGill-Queens University Press, 1992, pp. 209-19.

In the following essay, Linguanti views Lowry's short story collection Hear Us O Lord as a. macrotext, or as a work of "integrated unity."

Like most devoted readers of Lowry I have developed my own opinions about which have to be considered the important and definitive works among all the many and often mixed-up papers he left when he died. After a few years of work on his published and unpublished works I find that I am ready to consider Under the Volcano, a couple of versions of Lunar Caustic, and the collection of short stories Hear us O Lord from heaven thy dwelling place as the bulk of literary production that Lowry has left to his readers, a bulk...