Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Wyndham Lewis; Map of Paris; TARR; Appendix: Preface to the 1918 American Edition; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases. The nearest the general run get to art...
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Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Wyndham Lewis; Map of Paris; TARR; Appendix: Preface to the 1918 American Edition; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases. The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War - the English enfant terrible Frederick Tarr, and the middle-aged German Otto Kreisler, a failed painter who finds himself in a widening spiral of militaristic self-destruction. When both become interested in the same two women - Bertha Lunken, a conventional German, and Anastasya Vasek, the ultra-modern internationaldevotee
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The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start...
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The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War - the English enfant terrible Frederick Tarr, and the middle-aged German Otto Kreisler, a failed painter who finds himself in a widening spiral of militaristic self-destruction. When both become interested in the same two women - Bertha Lunken, a conventional German, and Anastasya Vasek, the ultra-modern internationaldevotee.
Tarr is the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, set against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War. The first edition to do the novel justice, with an introduction and notes placing it in the context of...
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Tarr is the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, set against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War. The first edition to do the novel justice, with an introduction and notes placing it in the context of social satire and avant-garde art movements, offering new insights into a major Modernist novel. Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Wyndham Lewis -- Map of Paris -- TARR -- Part I. BERTHA -- Part II. DOOMED, EVIDENTLY-THE 'FRAC' -- Part III. BOURGEOIS-BOHEMIANS -- Part IV. A JEST TOO DEEP FOR LAUGHTER -- Part V. A MEGRIM OF HUMOUR -- Part VI. HOLOCAUSTS -- Part VII. SWAGGER SEX -- Appendix: Preface to the 1918 American Edition -- Explanatory Notes -- Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases.