What can one make of all this violence and savagery? There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to ask a question about Snooty Baronet. This Baronet is most excellent company. Littérature et livres illustrés néerlandais. cloth backed boards by Earle Gray; yellow end papers; 313 clean, unmarked , b/w frontispiece and 13 further illustrations by Lewis; One of 226 printing in a limited signed edition; in mylar protective wraps Size: 8 Vo. Edition: First Edition. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Edited by Bernard Lafourcade, Published by The war’s psychological damage has caused a debilitating boredom, which in turn creates an underlying layer of violence that, volcanolike, erupts from time to time in strange and unpredictable (although not entirely unforeseen) acts of savagery. Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. First Edition - Limited. Signed by the Editor. There is no need to look any further than the opening sentence: “Not a bad face, flat and white, broad and weighty: in the daylight, the worse for much wear—stained, a grim surface, rained upon and stared at by the sun at its haughtiest, yet pallid still: with a cropped blondish moustache of dirty lemon, of toothbrush texture: the left eye somewhat closed up—this was a sullen eye.” Such prose activates one’s intellect at the same time that it straight-arms emotional involvement. Condition: Fine. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. Condition: Fine. no flaws or wear. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1984. Or he records a simple kiss as only Lewis, the master of the antierotic could do: “’Mike darling!’ she said between two sunbursts of intoxicated kiss-stuff, and close-ups screwed down like thermos-stoppers.”. no flaws or wear. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Welcome back. Reluctantly dragging his mistress along, he stops in southern France to try to enlist a poet friend on the expedition. Condition: Very Good. Lewis was an incendiary hater and this savage an hilarious trifle is worth a read for his acrid scenes involving his literary agent, 'Humph', including the delightful despatching thereof. Your account will only be charged when we ship the item. It is, perhaps, in any case, a journey towards death in the 'twilight of my race's days'. Vous pouvez définir vos préférences en matière de cookies en utilisant les boutons ci-dessous. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English writer, painter, and critic. Lien's Bookshop LLC Wyndham Lewis (illustrator). En créant gratuitement votre compte Catawiki, vous pourrez faire des offres sur n’importe lesquels de nos 50 000 objets d’exception proposés en vente chaque semaine. He also wrote two autobiograp Snooty has 'given up hoping for Man' but is, nonetheless, 'scrupulous and just, if only out of contempt for those who are so very much to the contrary'. Snooty Baronet by Lewis, Wyndham (edited by Bernard Lafourcade) and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk. , Signed by editor. Signed by the Editor. He was the founder of Vorticism, the only original movement in 20th century English painting. If there is more to this novel than an exercise in style, it begins with the notion of the Wild Body that informed all of Lewis’ fiction into the 1930’s. (Percy) Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was a novelist, painter, essayist, polemicist and one of the truly dynamic forces of the early 20th century and a central figure in the history of modernism. | Contact this seller The Vulgar Streak (1941) Self Condemned (1954) Publié en français sous le titre Condamné par lui-même, traduit par Philippe Valentré, Paris, Phébus, coll. SIGNED By Editor. A fourth volume of The Human Age, The Trial of Man, was begun by Lewis but left in a fragmentary state at the time of his death. The ultimate value of his contributions in each of these areas is debatable, and Snooty Baronet serves well to illustrate the nature of that debate.
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