Tarr is a novel at war with itself, with tensions raging at not only the level of style and content, but at the level of the book itself in that it exists in a few versions, being altered and revised by Lewis as it suited his fancy and his temper and his ever-mutating world view, and so even subs...
The stories in this book are in fact one story, that of a society adrift, like a shipwrecked crew upon a raft: fifty million people upon a wet and windy island in the Atlantic Ocean. Half of the inhabitants of Great Britain have been sold a patent medicine of peculiar austerity. Some of the chara...
After Rene Harding becomes dissatisfied with the civilization of England, he leaves the country and travels in search of a new intellectually stimulating home.
Principally two: namely T. E. Hulme and Gaudier Brzeska. They were both killed, the former within a quarter of a mile of where I was standing. We were in neighbouring batteries. I did not see him hit, but everything short of that, for we could see their earthworks, and the...
Tarr the french laws would sanction quite a bad wound: laws dealing with duelling in France were far more liberal than in Germany, because French duels seldom resulted in bloodshed or death—a subject of much derision by Germans, who took the culture of honour, and the bloodiness of its result, fa...