{"id":11945,"title":"The Apes of God","dimensions":"19.7 x 12.9 cm, 650 p, language : English, publisher : The Pinguin Group, London, ISBN : 0-14-008702-8","date_begin":"1930-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"1965-01-01","reference":"B 2026/522","stream_count_app":9,"permalink":"the-apes-of-god","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/025/551/large/Untitled684.jpg?1414057052","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Apes of God\u003c/em\u003e is a more or less impossible novel to summarize, because very little actually happens. As Paul Edwards puts it, \u0026ldquo;the middle five-hundred pages or so are experienced as a hiatus filled with purposeless activity\u0026rdquo;. Insofar as the novel has any plot to speak of, it moves forward only at the beginning and end of the novel. Apes opens with a seventeen-page italicized prologue titled Death-the-Drummer, in which we meet ninety-six year old ex-gossip columnist Lady Fredigonde. We learn that a certain Horace Zagreus has an important place in Lady Fredigonde\u0026rsquo;s aged consciousness. The novel\u0026rsquo;s concluding chapter, The General Strike, which takes place during the strike of 1926, sees this same Horace Zagreus, a sixty-something professional charlatan, engaged to marry Lady Fredigonde\u0026mdash;for her money, as we are aware, though she is not. The intervening \u0026ldquo;five-hundred pages or so\u0026rdquo; consist of a series of grotesque episodes in which Zagreus manipulates, lampoons, and scandalizes a large cast of characters based on various real-life personages of the period.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Len Gutkin (all text copyright themodernnovel.com)\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/The_Apes_of_God\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2450,"name":"Wyndham Lewis","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}