Tag: Wyndham Lewis

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Wyndham Lewis was born on this day in 1882. A first-rate novelist, critic, and painter, he was a leading English exponent of fascist modernism. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website:

• Kerry Bolton, “Wyndham Lewis”
• Jonathan Bowden, “Classical Modernism and the Art of the Radical Right”
• Jonathan Bowden, “Wyndham Lewis” (podcast)  (more…)

Wyndham Lewis, “La Suerte,” 1938

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One of Jonathan Bowden’s most compelling lectures: the life and work of Right-wing Nietzschean modernist painter, novelist, and critic Wyndham Lewis. Transcript here.  (more…)

Wyndham Lewis in 1917

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Paul O’Keefe
Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis
London: Pimlico, 2000

In his acknowledgment pages Paul O’Keefe states that it took him a decade—not including the years of research already donated to him by another writer—to complete his biography of Wyndham Lewis, a project he began in 1990 while he was president of the Wyndham Lewis Society. (more…)

Wyndham Lewis, “Red Duet,” 1914

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Edited by Alex Kurtagić 

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The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Heat.  (more…)

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Wyndham Lewis was born on this day in 1882. A first-rate novelist, critic, and painter, he was a leading English exponent of fascist modernism. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website: (more…)

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Wyndham Lewis, 1882 – 1957

French translation here

Corrected November 22, 2011

Editor’s Note:

This much-expanded version of a previously-published essay on Wyndham Lewis is chapter 8 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.

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Wyndham Lewis’ novel Tarr (an anagram of both “art” and “rat”) appeared first in 1915 as the Great War was raging, and it remains one of the great exercises in hard-boiled psychology. Most behaviorist prose tends to be shunted aside into genre fiction such as adventure and perhaps the noir detective novel.  (more…)

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Wyndham Lewis
The Apes of God

The Apes of God happens to be one of the most devastating satires to be published in the English language since the days of Dryden and Pope. It appeared in a Private Press edition (prior to general release), and at over 600 pages it was the size of your average London telephone directory. (more…)

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Wyndham Lewis
Childermass
New York: Riverrun Press, 2001

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Percy Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957

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Editor’s Note:

We are reposting this article in commemoration of Percy Wyndham Lewis’ birth on November 18, 1882. To learn more about Wyndham Lewis, visit the website of the Wyndham Lewis Society.

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