The Enemy

Name: The Enemy
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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A Biography of Wyndham Lewis

By: Jeffrey Meyers

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Hardcover | 1 November 2021 | Edition Number 1

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426 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6

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Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis' years at Rugby and the Slade, his bohemian life on the Continent, the creation of Vorticism and publication of Blast, and his experiences at Passchendaele, as well as his many love affairs, his bitter quarrels with Bloomsbury and the Sitwells, the suppressed books of the thirties, the evolution of his political ideas, his self-imposed exile in North America and creative resurgence during his final blindness. Jeffrey Meyers also describes Lewis' relationships with Roy Campbell, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. E Lawrence, Hemingway, Huxley, Yeats, Auden, Spender, Orwell and McLuhan. As the self-styled Enemy emerges from the shadows, he is seen as an independent and courageous artist and one of the most controversial and stimulating figures in modern English art and literature.

Industry Reviews

'...The Enemy is an excellent biography because of the moving picture it gives of a neglected genius struggling against the zeitgeist, and against poverty to produce a uniquely valuable body of work. It is a very readable book and gives proper emphasis to Lewis' comic gifts.' Paul Edwards, Enemy News

'The book is richly informative, fair, lively and in every good sense disinterested.' Denis Donoghue, New York Review of Books

'...solid and well documented, without being pointlessly massive or tediously long.' Bernard Begonzi, Times Literary Supplement

'The Enemy remains the best life of Lewis.' Phil Baker, The Guardian

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