Stefan Themerson

This volume presents Stefan Themerson through the eyes, minds, and words of 13 writers. It is an introduction to a thinker and writer, whose own words ranged through the many possibilities and variations of the three languages he used. There's philosophy, humour, adventure, conflict, reminiscences, and catastrophe. There are images, moving and still. There's music. In every field Themerson touched on possibilities and methods that he discovered or created for himself: the avant-garde films; semantic poetry; a very personal method of looking at a situation simultaneously from the inside and the outside, making a diagram, a time chart, a picture, a typography. He was interested in science and concerned with ethics, but protested when someone called him a moralist.