Malcolm Lowry's six published novels, Under the Volcano, Ultramarine, Lunar Caustic, Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid, October Ferry to Gabriola, and Hear us O Lord from heaven thy dwelling place, along with his two unfinished works, The Ordeal of Sigbjorn Wilderness, and La Mordida, were to comprise Lowry's projected masterwork entitled The Voyage that Never Ends. His metaphysic describing reality as a perpetual flow and motion working in accordance with an unchanging law of change is not only embodied in the structure of the Voyage cycle and within individual novels, but in his style through sentence structure, syntax, verb tense, and punctuation. Thus, Lowry can be seen to develop his belief that the voyage is a quest without a final goal, and one which exposes a search for reality and for methods of knowing that reality within life and art.
