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Wyndham Lewis

    November 18, 1882 – March 7, 1957

    Percy Wyndham Lewis was a titan of early 20th-century modernism, a novelist, painter, and essayist whose Vorticist movement pioneered abstract art in England. His early novels quickly established him as a formidable satirist, lauded by peers as a preeminent literary voice. After wartime service, Lewis delved into philosophy and political theory, becoming a significant, albeit controversial, public intellectual. Despite personal and professional challenges, he continued to produce powerful paintings and fiction, earning renewed acclaim in his later years and recognition with major exhibitions.

    Filibusters in Barbary
    The Revenge for Love
    Collected Poems and Plays
    Tarr
    The Wild Bee Handbook
    The Art of Being Ruled
    • The Art of Being Ruled

      • 450 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      This work presents a sharp critique of modern democracy and mass society through the lens of Wyndham Lewis' provocative insights. It explores the pitfalls of contemporary political systems and the consequences of mass culture, offering readers a thought-provoking examination of societal issues. The book's return to print invites a new audience to engage with Lewis' challenging perspectives on the state of democracy and the individual within a collective society.

      The Art of Being Ruled
    • The Wild Bee Handbook

      • 196 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.3(25)Add rating

      The Wild Bee Handbook is a beautifully illustrated celebration of the wild pollinators, offering practical advice to help them thrive

      The Wild Bee Handbook
    • In this witty exchange, Tarr playfully questions Hobson about his long hair, comparing him to figures like Walt Whitman and Shakespeare. Their banter reveals their contrasting views on personal expression and societal norms, highlighting themes of individuality and friendship through humor and clever dialogue.

      Tarr
    • Collected Poems and Plays

      • 232 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.6(12)Add rating

      This volume includes major works such as One-Way Song and Enemy of the Stars in very different versions as well as other writings that can now be seen as central to the formation of Lewis's work. The plays and poems crackle with concentrated, brilliant, and ferocious energy as Lewis creates a literary equivalent to the visual revolutions of Cubism and Vorticism, exploring how an artist should think and write in an oppressive world.

      Collected Poems and Plays
    • The Revenge for Love

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.5(105)Add rating

      Discusses the fraudulence and feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s.

      The Revenge for Love
    • »Das Beste ist, wenn man das Schlimmste über die Leute weiß« – und so ist der 1930 erschienene und hier erstmals auf Deutsch vorliegende Jahrhundertroman Die Affen ­Gottes eine ebenso komische wie brachiale Abrechnung mit jenem Milieu, das der Maler, Avantgardist und Gründer der Vortizisten-Gruppe Wyndham Lewis allerbestens kannte: die Londoner Kunstwelt der 1910er und -20er Jahre. Vom Autor in greller Überzeichnung vorgeführt, bringt das ­Personal dieser monströsen Farce ein veritables Welttheater zur Aufführung, das in einem mehrere hundert Seiten langen Karneval grotesker Masken gipfelt. Lewis’ beißende Satire operiert mit einer alle Register ziehenden Kunst des Dialogs und einer Schrift- und Umgangssprache mischenden Verfremdungstechnik. Ezra Pound zog das Werk dem Ulysses von Joyce vor, andere verglichen Lewis mit Rabelais oder Aristophanes. Mit seiner Konzentration auf das Physische und Groteske ist Die Affen Gottes eine ­stilistische Tour de Force und in der hier erstmals vorliegenden deutschen Übersetzung ein ­überaus lohnendes Stück noch zu entdeckender Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts.

      Die Affen Gottes
    • Tarr

      Roman

      • 459 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      Tarr