Аннотация
This is the autobiography of Wyndham Lewis during his most
creative years, the period before and during the Great War. It reappears
after many years out of print with new material that has been made
available by the author's widow. Wyndham Lewis was in every way an amazing
man: a central figure in the modern movement in art and literature, he was
one of the most renowned painters of the century, a founder of Vorticism,
one of the most original modern writers, and o polemicist of genius, having
devoted much of his life to establishing the work of others. He writes of
his early struggles, his social contacts with other figures of his day and
of the new movements that he did so much to establish. But the war memoirs,
essays and stories that make up a large part of this book are no less
interesting. Above all Wyndham Lewis was a brilliant individualist, lashing
out against complacency and traditionalism, not afraid to criticise his
closest friends when he disagreed with them, and he undoubtedly had many
enemies. Now his novels are being read again after a period of neglect and
this important volume of biographical, critical and fictional writing helps
to show the man behind the Tate Gallery paintings, the polemical review
'Blast' and 'The Human Age', as a colourful, courageous and cocky
individualist, to whom many of the best known creative imaginations in
modern Britain owe a considerable debt.
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