Tarr (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. Expatriate Artists in Pre-War Paris: A Vorticist Comedy of Ego, Will, and Anti-Bourgeois ArtBy Wyndham Lewis
Length2h 53m
About this audiobook
Tarr, set amid the expatriate art circles of pre-war Paris, follows the sardonic English painter Frederick Tarr and his violent counterfigure, the German bohemian Otto Kreisler, in a comedy of manners that becomes a ruthless examination of ego, will, and the obligations of art. Lewis's prose is angular and facet-cut, deploying caricature and paradox to satirize both bohemia and bourgeois sentiment. First serialized in The Egoist and later revised in 1928, the novel stands at the crucible of British modernism, channeling Vorticist energies into narrative form. A painter as well as a novelist, Wyndham Lewis helped found Vorticism and edited the polemical magazine Blast; his visual training and years in Paris, alongside contemporaries like Pound, shaped his hard-edged aesthetics. His anti-romantic, often Nietzschean emphasis on impersonality and will—hardened by the shocks of the early twentieth century—provides Tarr's intellectual armature, while his gift for hostile diagnosis turns the artists' quarter into a laboratory of modern personality. Recommended to readers of high modernism, art history, and satire, Tarr rewards close attention with its cold brilliance and structural daring. Approach it for its ideas, its audacious style, and its unflinching portrait of artistic life at the edge.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length2 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
5Tarr
2Introduction
6Analysis
3Synopsis
7Reflection
4Historical Context
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