Monday, November 30, 2009

My Wyndham Lewis Library

My only book in my Wyndham Lewis library is Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis, Paul O'Keeffe, c. 2000.

I bought a remaindered hard cover, in pristine condition, not a mark on it, for $12.98, on a whim.

The book turned out to be another one of my "best buys." 

Wyndham is an obscure artist, a contemporary of Virginia Woolf's, who keeps popping up when one least expects it.

For example, in J. H. Willis, Jr.'s book on the Hogarth Press, the author mentions "the angular, delicate pencil drawings by Wyndham Lewis" of Nancy Cunard (who I have described elsewhere as the Paris Hilton of her day, although unlike Paris Hilton, Nancy was talented, and probably a literary genius in her own right).  (Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers: The Hogarth Press 1917 - 1941, p. 117.)

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