Aldous Huxley
Paperback | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 3.86 | 10394 Users | 306 Reviews
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| Title | : | Point Counter Point |
| Author | : | Aldous Huxley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1996 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published 1928) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels |
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Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of the modern man" in the manner of a composer--themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic.First published in 1928, Huxley's satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murry, as well as Huxley himself.
List Books To Point Counter Point
| Original Title: | Point Counter Point |
| ISBN: | 1564781313 (ISBN13: 9781564781314) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Marjorie Carling, Walter Bidlake, John Bidlake, Hilda Tantamount, Philip Quarles, Edward Tantamount, Lucy Tantamount, Frank Illidge, Everard Webley, Denis Burlap, Elinor Bidlake, Molly d'Exergillod, Mark Rampion, Mary Rampion, Maurice Spandrell, Beatrice Gilray, Sidney Quarles |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 10394 Users | 306 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books Point Counter Point
A truly fantastic book. Read this in the buildup to university exams in between college books and other things I had to read for UNI. While my mind was focused on that, in the evenings and before bed, Huxley exercised the more important parts of my brain. I can't do the book justice on the grounds that I lack the intelligence to truly convey what Huxley presents in Point Counter Point. All I can say is that this book is among the best I've ever read, on a whole range of issues. It tackles theFor some reason I thought that I haven't finished this novel. Reading it again, I realized that I had finished it. I didn't mind rereading it, thought. I still think that is an excellent novel.
Neither brilliant nor awful. It has some good elements but it has no central theme or idea, and no plot to speak of. It reminds me of a cross between Vile Bodies and The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir. It is a book about the racy nihilism and the upper classes in the jazz age and a 'roman a clef' about the ideas and personalities of the twenties. I recognized the character of DH Lawrence, and it was interesting to see how highly he was thought of at the time. I think I got who James Middleton
Point Counter Point is a tragicomedy about a group of London intellectuals and/or members of the leisured class in the 1920s. Despite cynical and fun-making elements, Huxley allows his characters to formulate a series of profound and serious ideas, amongst them being:(a) Why do people bother with worrying about liberty, democracy and politics, when they should just get on with living their lives (b) It is easier to live the life of the intellectual, to live in a world purely of ideas, than it is
As a teenager in the 1990s I would often take advice regarding authors and books to read from the stories, poems, and novels of Charles Bukowski. Bukowski, naturally, a kind of Skid Row Zarathustra, has had a monumental influence on a great many readers over the years while also being an object of opprobrium and misgivings, understandably so, but I believe that I certainly gained as a youngster from his having introduced me to Louis-Ferdinand Céline, John Fante, and Knut Hamsuns HUNGER etc. I
Huxley never disappointed me so far. The man was a very fine writer indeed. This is one of his longer works, I think it might even be the longest novel he has wrote. It is certainly a very complex work, something I'd recommend if you: a) can appreciate a fine difference between literature and a popular novel, b) are a fan of Huxley c) want to read something that might actually make to think. Point Counter Point is a novel featuring a colourful cast of characters. You're bound to love some, and
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