Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis

by Paul O'Keeffe

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page in front of him, testify to his final, triumphant burst of creativity. for what precisely it would be remarkably difficult to say.' Painter and draughtsman, novelist, satirist, pamphleteer and critic, Lewis's multifarious activities defy easy categorisation.He launched the only twentieth-century English avant garde movement, Vorticism, in 1914. His first novel, Tarr, was published in 1918. During the intervening World War, as an artillery officer at the third battle of Ypres, he gained his 'political education under fire'. Anti-war books of the 1930s argued against what he regarded as a war-mongering left-wing orthodoxy, and presented the case for the...Read more
  • ISBN10 0224031023
  • ISBN13 9780224031028
  • Publish Date 28 September 2000
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 March 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 704
  • Language English