The Apes of God
London: The Arthur Press, 1930. Signed Limited Edition, #354 of 750 copies, signed by Wyndham Lewis. Clean and tight, a fine copy. / in very good- dust jacket with flap fold edges and joints abraded. Some creases and tears at top and bottom of spine. Small chips at flap fold corners.
The author describes the book as "reflecting the collapse of English Social life in the grip of post-war conditions. Its theme is the confusion of intellect and of emotion as exhibited in a society beneath the shadow of a revolutionary situation. It shows that society groping back to its childhood; and how, beneath the threat of the future, whose significance it is too exhausted to grasp, it calls loudly for its Mama, and returns to the bibs and bottles of its babyhood."
The origin of the title is in the belief of the early christians that the world swarmed with small devils who impersonated the Deity. These imitators of God they called Apes of God.
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