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Snooty Baronet
Snooty Baronet
Author: Wyndham Lewis
A contemporary novel by the noted British writer and artist acclaimed by many critics as a virtuoso in the area of world artistry._"Unexcelled by any novelist since 1914, except Joyce." Jocelyn Baines, THE LONDON MAGAZINE
ISBN-13: 9780876855997
ISBN-10: 0876855990
Pages: 313
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Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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If you're into snide, barbarically cruel satire (who isn't?) you'll love the first half of 'Snooty Baronet'. Initially, you'll be repelled by its seemingly slapdash prose and pugnacious narrator but if you hang in there you'll wind up feeling uplifted by Wyndham Lewis's misanthropic clowning. Among various fads of the 1920s, he savagely ridicules behaviorism, liberated women, whale hunting, human kindness, publishers, the special theory of relativity, and D.H. Lawrence. Unfortunately, the second half becomes too silly when the characters travel abroad as part of a far-fetched publicity stunt. But nothing beats those opening chapters for bracingly ruthless observation and splendidly original English.


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