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The Childermass. by Len Gutkin. Wyndham Lewis ’s The Childermass ( 1928 ), the first volume of the unfinished epic The Human Age (parts two and three came out in the fifties), is unarguably the most radical, outlandish, and formally experimental work in Lewis’s oeuvre. Aptly dubbed by Frederic Jameson as “the supreme realization of what ...
The novel follows the adventures of two Englishmen, Sattersthwaite and Pullman, presumably killed in the Great War, as they posthumously navigate a bizarre purgatorial afterlife while awaiting admission to something called The Magnetic City.
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Childermass can refer to: the feast of the Holy Innocents on December 28; the first part (1928) of The Human Age, a trilogy by Wyndham Lewis; Professor Roderick Random Childermass, a character in several books by John Bellairs; John Childermass, Norrell's cunning and surly servant in the novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ...
The story starts off with Sattersthwaite (known as Satters) who is wandering, lost, around Purgatory, having arrived there some ten days ago, after having been killed in World War I. Satters is one of those lost, flabby, weak men, wholly dependent on others.
22. Juli 2019 · Childermass is a massacre of the innocents… “Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under…” Matthew 2:16 In the posthumous existence massacre continues…
Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists. [1] His novels include Tarr (1918) and The Human Age trilogy, composed of The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai (1955) and Malign Fiesta (1955).
Publish with us. Policies and ethics. The Childermass, published in 1928 as the first part of a trilogy which was only completed much later, in 1955, was originally conceived as part of the half-million word ‘megalomastadonic’ masterwork called The Man of the World that Lewis planned in the...
