Wyndham Lewis was an art critic, leader of a group of abstract painters, editor, publisher, satirist, philosopher, and so'cial commentator, as' well as a novelist. So various and uneven are his gifts that he must be judged-to avoid his dismissal as a volcanic but burnt-out genius-where his achievement is most vital. In Wyndham Lewis the Novelist, Professor Timothy Materer argues that Lewis, as an artist in prose, was greatest as a novelist, despite...