Tarr
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set in the bohemian artist quarters of pre-war Paris, Tarr is a savage and intellectually electric novel that follows Frederick Tarr, a sharp-tongued English painter who wages a private war against sentimentality, bourgeois convention, and the suffocating romantic entanglements that threaten to undermine his artistic vision. When Tarr disentangles himself from his dull fiancée Bertha only to watch her fall into the orbit of the brutish German dilettante Kreisler, the novel ignites into a darkly comic collision of ego, desire, and destruction. Written with the hard, angular precision that defined the Vorticist movement, Lewis constructs a world where art and life are locked in perpetual, irreconcilable conflict. First published in 1918, Tarr stands as one of the most audacious debut novels in the English modernist canon, drawing immediate comparisons to the work of James Joyce and Ezra Pound. Lewis's prose is weaponised — satirical, aphoristic, and relentlessly intellectual — dissecting the pretensions of the European avant-garde with the same ferocity it directs at human weakness. A novel of ideas as much as a novel of character, it raises urgent questions about the relationship between the creative mind and the animal body that linger long after the final page.
Author: Wyndham Lewis
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set in the bohemian artist quarters of pre-war Paris, Tarr is a savage and intellectually electric novel that follows Frederick Tarr, a sharp-tongued English painter who wages a private war against sentimentality, bourgeois convention, and the suffocating romantic entanglements that threaten to undermine his artistic vision. When Tarr disentangles himself from his dull fiancée Bertha only to watch her fall into the orbit of the brutish German dilettante Kreisler, the novel ignites into a darkly comic collision of ego, desire, and destruction. Written with the hard, angular precision that defined the Vorticist movement, Lewis constructs a world where art and life are locked in perpetual, irreconcilable conflict. First published in 1918, Tarr stands as one of the most audacious debut novels in the English modernist canon, drawing immediate comparisons to the work of James Joyce and Ezra Pound. Lewis's prose is weaponised — satirical, aphoristic, and relentlessly intellectual — dissecting the pretensions of the European avant-garde with the same ferocity it directs at human weakness. A novel of ideas as much as a novel of character, it raises urgent questions about the relationship between the creative mind and the animal body that linger long after the final page.