Quauhnahuac

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Quauhnahuac is the fictional Mexican town that serves as the primary setting of Malcolm Lowry’s novel "Under the Volcano," closely modeled on the real city of Cuernavaca.

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Label Occurrences
Quauhnahuac canonical 1

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional town
literary setting
appearsInWork Under the Volcano NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme alcoholism
existential despair
political unrest
country Mexico
createdBy Malcolm Lowry NERFINISHED
hasClimate temperate highland climate (in-fiction, like Cuernavaca)
hasCulturalContext post-Revolutionary Mexico
hasEvent Day of the Dead celebrations NERFINISHED
Mexican national holiday festivities
hasFictionalStatus fictional location
hasLiterarySignificance one of the most famous fictional towns in 20th-century literature
hasNarrativePerspective multiple viewpoints in Under the Volcano
hasNearbyFeature volcano Iztaccíhuatl (referenced in-fiction) NERFINISHED
volcano Popocatépetl (referenced in-fiction) NERFINISHED
hasProtagonistResident the Consul (Geoffrey Firmin) GENERATED
hasTransportation buses to Mexico City (in-fiction)
hasTypeOfPlace provincial Mexican town
languageOfName Nahuatl NERFINISHED
literaryMovement modernist literature
locatedInFictionalRegion state of Morelos
modeledOn Cuernavaca NERFINISHED
narrativeFunction symbolic landscape of spiritual decay
notableFeature British expatriate community
cantinas and bars
volcanic landscape
primarySettingOf Under the Volcano NERFINISHED
settingTimePeriod 1930s
symbolizes inner turmoil of the Consul
moral and political chaos
topographicallySimilarTo Cuernavaca NERFINISHED
usedAs allegorical version of Cuernavaca
workPublicationYear 1947

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Subject: Quauhnahuac
Description of subject: Quauhnahuac is the fictional Mexican town that serves as the primary setting of Malcolm Lowry’s novel "Under the Volcano," closely modeled on the real city of Cuernavaca.

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Under the Volcano setInCity Quauhnahuac