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...Wyndham Lewis- (born 1884) has passed the word that he is no longer...
Half a century as painter, poet, novelist and polemicist has brought him niggardly financial reward, but his reputation is higher than ever before. A new generation is discovering Wyndham Lewis, and his publishers are reissuing his works amid applause from those who believe that he is Britain's foremost writer...
World War II has left behind it no trace of either the gaieties or the grim, radical dogma that swept Britain after World War I. Youth today is not so much flaming to be free as burning to acquire discipline. It was Wyndham Lewis' ferocious hatred of what he called "emotionally excited, closely-packed, heavily-standardized mass-units acting in a blond ecstatic unison" that caused his unpopularity in the '305. although he himself acted in unison of a sort with the Hitler regime-but only for a very brief spell...
...depend on a far-seeing law and order. Mysticism, "unconscious'" expression, addled emotionalism are his .pet hates. He stands up for personal "consciousness" in an epoch in which civilization has half-drowned itself in mass emotion and the seas of the Freudian unconscious. As long ago as 1914 Wyndham Lewis was pouring curses upon Mother Nature and shaggy beards, arguing that master gardeners and stern hairdressers are the truest symbols of civilization...
Champagne & Pygmies. "American book clubs pay quite astounding sums, don't they?" Lewis asked a visitor recently. Self Condemned, like all Wyndham Lewis' books, shows just why Lewis is self-condemned never to revel in bookclub riches. It demands steady concentration and hard thinking, strikes through to the heart only by way of the head. The book is what its hero Rene Harding calls "a taper in a tornado." Author Lewis is likely to be lighting such tapers for some time to come. To be released this month are the radio adaptations of two new novels commissioned from...