The Wild Body

Paperback. Pub Date :2004-03-04 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics Wyndham Lewis can claim to be one of a tiny handful of British artists who had a European reach and ambition. Creator with Ezra Pound of Vorticism. editor . designer and author of the great art manifesto Blast. a great painter and portraitist. novelist. polemicist and hater of the Bloomsbury movement. through a long life Lewis remained controversial. belligerent and very funny. With Joyce. Eliot and Pound (all of whose definitive portraits he painted) he stood for a heroic engagement with art and literature - and his ultimate (and unique) achievement was to be both a spectacular novelist and a spectacular painter.The Wild Body showcases his most original. daring and entertaining short fiction. mainly written around the time of Blast. In amazing contrast with so much feeble British writin...


Genre: Literary Fiction