Literary synopsis

The Red Priest is Wyndham Lewis’ last novel. The left-leaning cleric of the title is Augustine Card, tall, attractive, well-connected, a boxer in his youth, who is making his mark at a church in London by inviting Russian clergy to his services, holding "debates," and being generally charismatic and controversial. Card gets into a fistfight with a curate and kills him. He is charged with murder and convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter. His wife Mary gets a divorce, and we learn from her than Card, after doing his time, goes off to Canada, where he gets into another fight and is killed.

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