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Jan 1, 1882 — Jan 1, 1957· 75 yrs

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Wyndham Lewis

Also known as: LEWIS, WYNDHAM, 1882-1957., Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957.

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a Canadian-born British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited Blast, the literary magazine of the Vorticists. Lewis is known for his novels Tarr (1918) and The Apes of God (1930), short story collection The Wild Body (1927), and autobiography Blasting and Bombardiering (1937).

Amherst, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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All through his life he made the strongest efforts to conceal as well as to glorify his own personality.

— from Hitler, 1973

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The revenge for love

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Published in the shadow of the Spanish Civil War, The Revenge for Love is a political thriller attacking the fraudulence and feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s. A brilliant satire on a world that has lost its sense of self and been seduced by the appeal of Communism, it is one of a handful of books (it could be compared to Orwell's Coming Up for Air or Koestler's Darkness at Noon) which defined a particular mood and to today's audience gives an unparalleled sense of how Europe turned toxic on the eve of the Second World War. A major statement by a great artist and writer The Revenge for Love now deserves a new generation of readers and is the perfect introduction to Lewis's work.

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The art of being ruled

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The apes of God

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