The Apes of God Wyndham Lewis

Résumé

The novel is set in 1926, leading up to the General Strike in May. In an episodic structure, the story follows a young simpleton called Dan Boleyn as he travels the London art world. Dan follows the directions of an infatuated sixty-year-old albino, Horace Zagreus, who believes him to be a genius. The 'Apes of God' that he meets are imitators of true creators; they are characterised as "prosperous mountebanks who alternately imitate and mock at and traduce those figures they at once admire and hate." (p. 123) In the story Zagreus is presented as a character that is only the imitator of another character, Pierpoint, who appears to be the origin of all the ideas that circulate in the society depicted in the novel. Pierpoint, though often mentioned and often maligned, never appears in the novel. He is described as 'a painter turned philosopher' (p. 129), a description that could be applied to Lewis himself

Auteur :
Lewis, Wyndham
Éditeur :
New-York, Black Sparrow Press,
Genre :
Roman
Langue :
anglais.
Description du livre original :
1 vol. (620 p.)
ISBN :
9780876855126.
Domaine public :
Non
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Table des matières

  • PROLOGUE
  • 1. Dick
  • 2. The Virgin
  • 3. The Encyclical
  • 4. Be not too finical
  • 5. The split-man
  • 6. Ape-flagellant
  • 7. Pamela Farnham’s tea-party
  • 8. Lesbian-ape
  • 9. Chez Lionel Kein ESQ
  • 10. Warned for duty at Lord Osmund’s
  • Mr. Zagreus and the split-man
    • i
    • ii
    • iii
  • 12. Lord Osmund’s Leten Party
    • I. THE BANQUET.
    • II. THE PLAYERS SOLUS.
    • III. THE KITCHEN.
    • IV. MRS. BOSUN’S CLOSET.
    • V. AT THE AMERICAN BAR.
    • VI. DAN AT THE ASSEMBLY.
    • VII. BLACKSHIRT.
    • VIII. FINNIAN SHAW FAMILY GROUP.
    • IX. BLACKSHIRT EXPLAINS RATNER, RATNER BLACKSHIRT.
    • X. THE OLD COLONELS.
    • XI. THE THRESHOLDS
    • XII. NOW JONATHAN BELL WAS AN OLD JOHN BULL
    • XIII. CAPTAIN BLUNDERBUSS AND HIS MAN SQUIB
    • XIV. THE WICKED GIANT ‘COCKEYE’
    • XV. THE LIBRARY
    • XVI. ALBINO BLUSHES
    • XVII. DAN AND THE TROPICAL MAN.
    • XVIII. POST-CHAMPAGNE
    • XIX. KILLED BY KINDNESS
    • XX. GOD ALWAYS DESIRES TO MANIFEST HIMSELF
    • XXI. THE VANISH
    • XXII. THE PLAY
    • XXIII. BEWARE of PICKPOCKETS.
  • 13. The general strike
  • Afterwork by Paul Edwards

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