About this Item
1 320 p. By a close friend of Lewis in the latter part of his life. The book attempts to convey the changing, overall pattern of Lewis' political thinking in the turbulent years between 1920 and 1950. Distrust over this subject has been a large factor in neglect of Lewis. Description by Test Center Books. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. book itself isn't signed, but included is a signed letter by the author to the previous owner explaining the book a little bit and how the owner could collect more Wyndham Lewis materials. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0075557
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Filibuster: Study of the Political Ideas...
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
About this title
Wyndham Lewis, as writer and painter, was one of the great creative geniuses of this century and also one of the most neglected. A large part of the cause of that neglect has been the enduring distrust of Lewis's political thinking, which has been greatly misunderstood and misrepresented. A leading intellectual in an age of intellectuals, Lewis was outspoken in praise and criticism, and, swimming against the mood of the times, became wrongly identified with the Fascist cause. Yet the truth is that there is no convenient political label to pin on Wyndham Lewis, for he was too much of an individualist ever to espouse a cause.
D. G. Bridson, a close friend of Wyndham Lewis in the latter part of his life, has examined critically the evolution of Lewis's ideas over some thirty years of writing. The Filibuster is an attempt to convey the changing, overall pattern of his political thinking, to clear away the misunderstandings and allow us to assess Lewis more truly both as a man and an artist, in the historical context of his times, the turbulent years between 1920 and 1950.
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