Wyndham Lewis

This collection of stories recounts the adventures of Ker-Orr, a self-termed 'soldier of humour', and his travels in the Breton countryside shortly before the First World War. Through his experiences, along with other tales that range from comic depictions of fellow travellers to vivid portrayals of circus clowns, Wyndham Lewis depicts a weary, run-down pre-war culture that was, in Ezra Pound's words, 'gone in the teeth'. Vivid, evocative and meticulous, these works, at once mocking and aggressive, form a brilliant reflection on the ludicrous in humankind. For here, in these rich and vigorous early pieces by a key modernist writer and artist, the laughter never loses its edge.

Percy Hardcaster, a communist fighter wounded in the Spanish Civil War, returns to London to acclaim and adoration. But is his hero's welcome deserved? In this modernist classic, Wyndham Lewis brilliantly depicts a world in which everyone is hiding something - from Hardcaster himself to the failed artist Victor Stamp, reduced to turning out forgeries in order to earn a living. In prose that is by turns humorous and tragic, The Revenge for Love portrays a society in which deceit - including false propaganda and the smuggling of non-existent guns - is all-pervasive. Here everyone wears a mask, and loyalty, art and friendship are all shown to be nothing compared to brute force and the realities of the political game.

BLAST, edited by Wyndham Lewis and subtitled Review of the Great British Vortex, was the magazine of the short-lived Vorticist movement in British art. Influenced by Cubism and Futurism, and Imagism in literature, the Vorticists embraced all things modern and veered towards abstraction. The first issue of BLAST was published, with its distinctive puce cover and bold typography, on 20 June 1914, but within weeks war had broken out in Europe. The Vorticists held an exhibition at the Dore Gallery in London in 1915 and a second issue of BLAST was published, but the movement did not survive the war. BLAST No. 1 includes the Vorticist Manifesto, with their blasts and blesses of all and sundry in British art, and several pieces by Wyndham Lewis, including his play Enemy of the Stars. Other notable contributions include The Saddest Story by Ford Maddox Hueffer , which would later become the first chapter of The Good Soldier, and a short story by Rebecca West, her first published work. BLAST No. 1 also published black and white illustrations of artwork by Wyndham Lewis, Edward Wadsworth, Frederick Etchells, W. Roberts, Jacob Epstein, Gaudier Brzewska, Cuthbert Hamilton and Spencer Gore. These include some of the first abstract paintings to be produced by British artists.

Una gran novela que combina aventuras, arte, romance, desengaños, humor y sátira política. El descubrimiento de un clásico indispensable. «Tiene uan cualidad indefinible, como una vitamina literaria

Individualista insobornable, narrador de sorprendente talento, polemista de genio, testigo privilegiado de la escena artística inglesa de las primeras décadas del XX, íntimo de James Joyce, T. S. Eliot o Ezra Pound, archienemigo de Noel Coward y de los artistas del grupo de Bloomsbury, muchos coinciden en señalar a Wyndham Lewis como alguien extremadamente brillante y por tanto peligroso. Esta es la autobiografia de Wyndham Lewis durante sus años mas creativos: el periodo que precedio y que siguio inmediatamente a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Pero no estamos simplemente ante unas originalisimas memorias de guerra y posguerra. Este libro constituye, de hecho, un autentico repaso a las inquietudes artisticas de toda una epoca. Con Estallidos y bombardeos Impedimenta inaugura su Biblioteca Wyndham Lewis, que se ira completando proximamente con la edicion de titulos de la importancia de Los monos de Dios y Tarr.

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