The Apes of God의 座標 : Wyndham Lewis 小考 = A Study on The Apes of God

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

My aim in this study is to present The Apes of God as a masterpiece of a satire and external method; to demonstrate through quotation, comment and analysis significant aspects of the Apes.
Although Wyndham Lewis commanded limited recognition in England and America during most of his life time, one speculates, indeed, how many Koreans are hearing his name, or at least identifying it for the first time.
It is a matter of regret that there are very few persons in Korea who are intrested in Mr. Wyndham Lewis and his literature. During the thirties in which the Move ment of Modernism was prevalent in the literary circle of Korea, late Dr. Jae-Seo Choi refered to only the name of Wyndham Lewis along with T.S. Eliot, Ezra pound, I.A. Richards and Herbert Read and so on. Since then not even the name has been mentioned in both the academic and the literary circles of Korea for more than forty years.
Such being the case, I have written two short treatises on Wyndham Lewis; the one was "Introduction to Wyndham Lewis", the other "A Study on Wyndham Lewis' Political Point of View", in 1970 and 1973 respectively.
As a premise of the discussion, the basic conception of his satire and the great philosophy of 'eye' are commented in this study, refering to his posture as a sociological-diagnotician and a painter. His external imagery is also briefly treated in this comment.
After that the general survey of The Apes is followed, as a satire of the Bloomsbury and the decadence prevalent between the two great wars.
Timothy Masterer or some other commentators argues that in so far as Wyndham Lewis strives only for the spatial efforts proper to painting, he fails in The Apes.
But it is no exaggeration to say that in spite of the limitation of the external method, Mr. Wyndham Lewis becomes, as T.S. Eliot says, the greatest prose master of style of his generation. The Apes of God is also an inevitable milestone in his literary pilgrimage.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. Introduction
• Ⅱ. Satire
• Ⅲ. Philosophy of Eye
• Ⅳ. The Great English Vortex
• Ⅴ. Conclusion