Point counter point

Resource Information

The work Point counter point represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Point counter point

Statement of responsibility

Aldous Huxley ; introduction by Nicholas Mosley

Creator

• Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

Subject

• Novelists
• Satire
• Intellectuals -- Fiction
• Intellectuals
• England -- Fiction
• Satire
• Novelists -- Fiction
• Fiction
• England
• Satire

Genre

• Fiction
• Satire

Language

eng

Summary

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 20th 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.912

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6015.U9

LC item number

P6 1996

Literary form

fiction