Rude Assignment An Intellectual Autobiography

Lewis, Wyndham & Toby Foshay

ISBN 10: 0876856040 / ISBN 13: 9780876856048

Published by Black Sparrow, 1984

About this Item

Cloth-backed pictorial boards, paper spine label. #164 of 400 copies. Board edges lightly worn/toned. Tight and unmarked. With acetate jacket. ; 6.4 X 1.26 X 9.36 inches; 300 pages.

Seller Inventory # 42370

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rude Assignment An Intellectual Autobiography
• Publisher: Black Sparrow
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876856040
• ISBN 13: 9780876856048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

The English novelist, essayist, and vorticist painter presents a self-portrait which both examines his life and illuminates his intellectual, social, and political ideals.

About the Author

Wyndham Lewis (1882 1957) was born on his father's yacht off Nova Scotia but grew up in England. The author of many novels, including "The Revenge for Love, The Apes of God", and "Tarr", he was associated with T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pund. Besides being a leading figure of the Modernist movement in English literature, Lewis was also a much-praised artist whose portraits of T.S. Eliot now hangs in the Durban Art Gallery in South Africa.