Blasting and Bombardiering (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Wyndham Lewis
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1914-1926
- Setting: England and the western front of World War I
- Principal Characters: Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Memory, Authors or writers, World War I, Military life or service, Western Europe or western Europeans, Biography, Cubism, Avant-garde, Futurism
Form and Content
Blasting and Bombardiering is particularly useful as a World War I memoir, for it recounts Wyndham Lewis’ life from before the war until almost a decade after. Yet, as is so often the case for those who endured the western front, the war is central throughout. Few other wars have had the extended personal and cultural impact of World War I. This influence is clearer in Lewis’ work than in many because as author and painter, frontline soldier and—after arranging to be excused from combat—war artist, he becomes an Everyman. Lewis’ artistic and...
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