{"product_id":"wyndham-lewis-the-enemy-speaks","title":"Wyndham Lewis - The Enemy Speaks","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA CD audiobook of readings by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the influential British modernist writer, artist and self-styled 'Enemy' feted both by T.S. Eliot and Mark E. Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLewis is best known as the founder of the Vorticist art movement, an English variant of Italian Futurism. Publication of their journal \u003ci\u003eBlast\u003c\/i\u003e was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, after which Lewis the artist pursued a parallel career as a writer of fiction, satire and criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Enemy Speaks\u003c\/i\u003e gathers together rare broadcast recordings made by Lewis in 1938, 1947 and 1951 on various subjects in art and politics, as well as readings of three poems from \u003ci\u003eOne-Way Song\u003c\/i\u003e recorded at Harvard in 1940. The CD also features a dramatized extract from his Bloomsbury-baiting satire \u003ci\u003eThe Apes of God\u003c\/i\u003e, recorded in 1951 with an introduction by the critic V.S. Pritchett. The CD closes with the recording of \u003ci\u003eSympathy\u003c\/i\u003e which so vexed Lieutenant Lewis in a shared dug-out near Ypres in 1917.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD booklet features archive Lewis images and historical notes by James Hayward. Project released in association with the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCD tracklist\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. When John Bull Laughs (1938)\u003cbr\u003e2. End of Enemy Interlude (1940)\u003cbr\u003e3. Song of the Militant Romance (1940)\u003cbr\u003e4. If So the Man You Are (1940)\u003cbr\u003e5. A Crisis of Thought (1947)\u003cbr\u003e6. The Essential Purposes of Art (1951)\u003cbr\u003e7. The Apes of God (extract) (1951)\u003cbr\u003e8. Sympathy (sung by Nelson \u0026amp; Leigh) (1917)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LTM","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":67766301196420,"sku":"ylg1792581635184","price":8.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/6038\/8228\/files\/wyndham-lewis---the-enemy-speaks_1.jpg?v=1792581640","url":"https:\/\/stylecoboutique.shop\/products\/wyndham-lewis-the-enemy-speaks","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}