The only available edition of Wyndham Lewis's major Modernist novel, and the first critical edition based on Lewis's revised, final text.
Set in Paris on the eve of the First World War, Tarr's story and style reflect Lewis's views on art and literature, a reflection both of the Vorticist movement in art and the literary experimentalism of Modernism.
Scott W. Klein's introduction places the novel in the context of social satire and the avant-garde, especially the artistic developments of the 1910s including Cubism, Futurism, and Lewis's own movement, Vorticism, and explores the links between Tarr and other Modernist masterpieces.
Comprehensive notes and a glossary of foreign words and phrases in the novel.
An Appendix reprints Lewis's Preface to the 1918 American edition.
Includes a map of Paris to assist readers with the action of the novel.
