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by Aldous Huxley
language: english
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing, October of 2023 ‧
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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 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 of the time as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, as well as Huxley himself. A major work of the twentieth century and a monument of literary modernism, this edition includes an introduction by acclaimed novelist Nicholas Mosley (author of Hopeful Monsters and the son of Sir Oswald Mosley).


Along with Brave New World (written a few years later), Point Counter Point is Huxley''s most concentrated attack on the scientific attitude and its effect on modern culture. 

Point Counter Point

by Aldous Huxley

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ISBN: 9781628974768
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date: October of 2023
Language: English
Format: eBook
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) é um escritor visionário e um dos mais astutos guias nos meandros do futuro da civilização. Romancista, crítico e ensaísta, autor de uma vasta obra, corria-lhe nas veias um profundo interesse pela ciência, que se reflectiria na sua obra mais famosa, Admirável Mundo Novo. Estudou Literatura em Oxford, depois de ter contraído uma grave infeção ocular na adolescência, e foi professor de Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell), em Eton. Repartiu a sua vida entre a Itália, a França e os EUA, país que o perturbou pela sua mescla de hedonismo e de puritanismo. De satirista social e figura próxima do Grupo de Bloomsbury, nos anos 20, às suas experiências com a mescalina e o LSD, nos anos 40 e 50, e à viragem para o pacifismo e para o misticismo, reinventou-se continuamente e é hoje tido por um dos maiores escritores do século XX.

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