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Chargement... The Letters of Wyndham Lewispar Wyndham Lewis
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 Mr. W. K. Rose provides a thoroughly satisfactory apparatus of notes and linking passages, and in general the work could not have have been better done, nor could Lewis have asked for a more intelligent or sympathetic editor. The story of his life, as it is told here, is that of a man persistently opposed to the literary and artistic establishments of his time, who failed ever to compel from them acknowledgement of his genius, but in the end, blind and mentally much tamed, was granted it as an ironic gift. As a letter-writer Wyndham Lewis is generally at the highest, rather monotonous pitch of an egotist’s exhilaration in his rights and wrongs. They nail Lewis down as a brilliant, touchy Welshman with a splendid power of invective and insulting laughter—in a throwaway line he called Canada “a nationetle”—an ingenious quarreler, a disarrayed commentator on public affairs—of which, portentously, he knew nothing; and give us a blurred view of his originality as an artist and of his glamour as a conspiratorial figure in literary and painting circles.
Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis, who for half a century was a dynamic force among English artists and intellectuals. Culturally, Lewis played the dual role of innovator and iconoclast. Lewis's letters show the wide range of his interests as well as his great verbal energy and unrelenting intellect. Lewis knew most of the significant artists and writers of his time and some of them - Augustus John, Pound, Eliot and Joyce were his lifelong friends and chief correspondents. Regardless of to whom he was writing, he displayed his intense awareness of the personalities and currents around him. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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