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Jouney into Barbary
Wyndham Lewis:
Journey Into Barbary
Edited by C. J. Fox
Illustrations by Wyndham Lewis
In 1931 Wyndham Lewis journeyed south through Morocco to the rugged heartland of the Berbers. This book presents the first comprehensive collection of the vivid impressions he recorded as both writer and painter, and also serves as a unique historical guide to the now explosive Arab world of North Africa as it smouldered during the hiatus between the two World Wars. Included in this volume are large excerpts from surviving parts of an unpublished book Lewis wrote about the Kasbahs and Souks of Barbary. His previously uncollected magazine accounts of Berber life and art are all included, and virtually all of the startling 'Filibusters in Barbary', an account of his Moroccan expedition first published in London, then immediately and permanently suppressed by the publisher.
Editor C. J. Fox has provided a detailed introduction, placing the writings in their historical context and in the context of Lewis's own career.
In this book we see the master-satirist Lewis, fresh from the achievement of The Apes of God (1930) and at his peak as a prose stylist and man of ideas. He is also at this time producing major paintings. This visual side of his imagination is engaged throughout his journey to the mountains of the Anti-Atlas, overlooking the vast and perilous Saharan wasteland of the Rio de Oro. Of the excellent but rarely exhibited paintings and drawings that resulted, 15 are reproduced here, comprising a bold companion-document to Lewis's vigorous prose account of his journey into Barbary.
238 pages, 6'' x 9'' (230 x 150 mm)
15 b/w illustrations, English
Paperback ISBN: 0-87685-518-4 $ 15.00
Cloth Trade    ISBN: 0-87685-519-2    $ 25.00
About the Editor:

C. J. Fox was editor, with Walter Michael, of 'Wyndham Lewis on Art' (Thames & Hudson, 1971) and, with Robert T. Chapman, of a collection of short fiction by Lewis, 'Unlucky for Pringle' (Vision Press, 1973). He also edited 'Enemy Salvoes (Vision Press, 1975), a selection of Lewis's literary criticism. He is a former editor of the newsletter of the Wyndham Lewis Society and has published articles on David Jones, Karl Kraus and Robinson Jeffers, as well as reviewing for the magazine, 'PN Review'. A Canadian, he worked as a correspondent in London, Paris and Brussels for the Canadian Press news agency and now is an editor in London with Reuters.

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