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Wyndham Lewis was born in 1882 and died in 1957. Before the First World War he was at the heart of the British avant-garde and creator of Vorticism and Blast. He fought in the artillery during the war, a time recalled in his memoir Blasting and Bombadiering. His major novels include Tarr, The Apes of God, Rotting Hill, The Revenge for Love, The Childermass and Self-Condemned. His paintings and drawings are held in many collections around the world, most notably Tate Britain.
Widely considered to be Wyndham Lewis's most outstanding novel, Revenge for Love is a political thriller set in Britain and Spain against the background of the Spanish Civil War. The protagonist, Percy Hardcaster, is a Communist, living in a world of forgers and fakers, in both the art and political worlds. All appearances are exposed as cynical manipulations as Lewis tries to explore reality and expose the lives of those entangled in the revolution, including Victor and Margot Stamp, twisted into intrigue and machinations outside of their understanding and control that eventually cause their deaths. The novel is a great satirical work and a revealing insight into a tumultuous epoch of twentieth century history. (Kirkus UK)
