Mo Cohen: Maybe it's helpful to note that in The Apes
of God Julius Ratner is really John Rodker, author of Adolphe, and
Lewis's former publisher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_1920
JM: The curious title,
I see, is "Adolphe 1920:" (1929).
It doesn't seem to be related to
Benjamin Constant's "Adolphe" (1816).