The Human Age

Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was an English writer, painter and critic (he dropped the name 'Percy,' which he disliked). He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST.

His novels include his pre-World War I-era novel Tarr (set in Paris), and this triology, The Human Age, comprising The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta (both 1955), set in the afterworld. A fourth volume of The Human Age, The Trial of Man, was begun by Lewis but left in a fragmentary state at the time of his death.

He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, Blasting and Bombardiering (1937) and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career Up-to-Date (1950).