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| Self Condemned |
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Afterword by Rowland Smith
Illustrations by Wyndham Lewis |
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This work, concerning his desperate years marooned in Toronto during World War II, where Lewis, intensely homesick for London, finally came to terms with himself both as a man and as an artist, is considered by most critics to be one of Lewis's greatest novels. It is the author's most ''human'' book, a testament of compassion, torment and understanding. The protagonist, René Harding, a professor living in exile with his wife in a small decaying hotel, is surrounded by a world of turmoil. His heroic struggle to retain his dignity, humor and sanity in the face of spiritual and physical privation represents the struggle of the modern intelligence to survive.
This new edition is illustrated with drawings Lewis executed in Toronto during the war. Professor Rowland Smith of Dalhousie University provides an informative Afterword, and the edition also presents in an appendix a surprising alternative ending prepared by Lewis but never before published. In the conclusion of this version of 'Self Condemned' René and Hester return to the gloomy postwar London, where the despondent Hester commits suicide and René sinks into fatalistic stagnation. |
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440 pages, 6'' x 9'' (230 x 150 mm)
24 b/w illustrations, English |
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ISBN: 0-87685-575-3 |
$ 15.00 |
| Cloth Trade |
ISBN: 0-87685-576-1 |
$ 25.00 |
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| About the Editor: |
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Rowland Smith was born in Johannesburg and educated in South Africa and at Oxford. Since 1967 he has lived in Canada. He taught at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he was assistant editor of English Studies in Africa, before moving to Nova Scotia. He is chairman of the English Department of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has been Director of the Centre for African Studies. In addition to many articles on modern literature, his publications include 'Lyric and Polemic: The Literary Personality of Roy Campbell' (1972) and (as editor) 'Exile and Tradition: Studies in African and Caribbean Literature' (1976).
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