Wyndham Lewis
Lewis was a painter, polemicist, and novelist whose Tarr and The Human Age trilogy are major if difficult works of English modernism. His abrasive, satirical fiction is indissociable from his combative intellectual personality.
Works
- TarrModernist novel satirizing artistic pretension and bohemian society in postwar London
- The ChildermassSecond volume of Tyro sequence exploring philosophical conflicts in surreal settings
- Monstre Gai
- Malign Fiesta
- Self CondemnedNovel of an exile from Canada grappling with displacement and cultural alienation