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...true prominence. Tarr was not only his first large-scale assault on woolly vaporings about love and life, it was (and still is) one of the greatest comic novels ever written in English. None of Lewis' later novels-even The Revenge for Love, The Apes of God, The Childermass-has ousted Tarr from first place, but each displays uniquely the mingled anger, intellectual probity and hair-raising humor that are the stamp of a Lewis opus. What is most curious and most defective about all these novels is that Lewis, archapostle of gardeners and barbers, is himself in capable...
...latest political book is "The Hitler Cult," which has not yet been published in this country. Before that came "Left Wings Over Europe" and "The Mysterious Mister Bull." In addition to his painting, Mr. Lewis has published several novels, among them "Tarr." "The Apes of God" and "Childermass." His critical and philosophical works include "Time and The Western Man," "The Lion and the Fox," "The Art of Being Ruled," and "The Diabolical Principle...
...have a double-acting influence. When they succeed, as Joyce succeeded in Ulysses, in enabling the author to state truths that could not be expressed in a traditional form, they encourage a thousand writers to work in the same field. When they fail, as Wyndham Lewis failed in The Childermass, the unread wreckage serves to warn later writers away from that intellectual reef...
...Vorticism. Vorticist Lewis, together with Pound, edited two numbers of a vitriolic review, Blast, before he enlisted with the Royal Artillery in the War. Since then, an enfant terrible in earnest, he has written many biting books: Tarr, The Art of Being Ruled, Time and the Western Man, The Childermass. By its enormous scope and exuberant execution The Apes of God should do for modern satire what Joyce's Ulysses did for the modern novel...