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Point Counter Point [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 592 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 197x132x38 mm, kaal: 402 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2004
  • Kirjastus: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN-10: 0099458195
  • ISBN-13: 9780099458197
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 592 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 197x132x38 mm, kaal: 402 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2004
  • Kirjastus: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN-10: 0099458195
  • ISBN-13: 9780099458197
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW

The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds himself drawn to the dangerous political charm of Everard. As they all engage in dazzling and witty conversation, the din of the age - its ideas and idiocies - grows deafening.

Arvustused

Huxley's style is at once dry and rich, intellectual and sensuous, scholarly and romantic. Point Counter Point is extremely funny with passages of rich and gorgeous farce * Observer * As a piece of satire, often brilliant, sometimes wise, Point Counter Point is a monstrous exposure of a society which confuses pleasure with happiness, sensation with sensibility, mood with opinion, opinion with conviction and self with God * Guardian *

Muu info

Wickedly accurate portraits of Huxley's literary contemporaries in this novel of high society misbehaviour
Aldous Huxley came to literary fame in 1921 with his first novel, Crome Yellow. With the novels Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves and Point Counter Point, Huxley quickly established a reputation for bright, brilliant satires that ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. In later life, exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs dominated Huxleys writing, including his first-person account of experiencing mescaline in The Doors of Perception. Aldous Huxley died in 1963.