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When it was published in 1928, Point Counter Point no doubt shocked its readers with frank depictions of infidelity, sexuality, and the highbrow high jinks of Aldous Huxley's arty characters. What's truly remarkable, however, is how his novel continues to shock today. True, we may hardly lift an eyebrow at poor Marjorie Carling leaving her husband to live in sin with--and get pregnant by--her lover Walter Bidlake. And the sexual exploits of Lady Edward Tantamount or her daughter, Lucy, seem quite in keeping with the behavior expected of such exalted persons by readers inured to the exploits of the British Royals. If the varieties of sexual experience on display in Huxley's novel seem tame by current standards, his clear-eyed dissection of the motives behind them are thrillingly fresh--and his commentaries on everything from politics to ecology sometimes chillingly prescient. Take for example, the wisdom of amateur biologist Lord Edward Tantamount on the subject of non-renewable resources:
"No doubt," he said, "you think you can make good the loss with phosphate rocks. But what'll you do when the deposits are exhausted?" He poked Everard in the shirt front. "What then? Only two hundred years and they'll be finished. You think we're being progressive because we're living on our capital Phosphates, coal, petroleum, nitre--squander them all. That's your policy. And meanwhile you go round trying to make our flesh creep with talk about revolutions."When his interlocutor, the fascist politician Everard Webley, demands to know whether Lord Edward wants a revolution, Tantamount first asks whether such an event would reduce the population and check production and then, when assured it would, he responds, "'Then certainly I want a revolution.' The Old Man thought in terms of geology and was not afraid of logical conclusions."
Huxley fills his novel with a multitude of characters, from the obscenely wealthy Tantamounts to the priapic painter John Bidlake, his children Walter and Elinor, and their respective mates, Marjorie Carling and Philip Quarles. There is also the venomous Maurice Spandrell, the revolutionary Illidge, the unctuous Burlap, and the happily married (a rarity in this novel) Mark and Mary Rampion, who are the book's moral center--theirs is the one relationship that combines reason and passion in proper measure. They are purportedly in part based on well-known figures of the time such as D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield. Love, loss, infidelity, and murder are the subjects under discussion as Huxley juxtaposes one point of view against its opposite, and mixes in a healthy dollop of science, politics, religion, and art, as well. Point Counter Point is an intelligent novel about the intellectual world, and one that bears up gracefully under the test of time. --Alix Wilber -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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Published in 1928, Huxley's standard satirizes the intellectual life of the 1920s. This is currently the least expensive edition in print.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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Good but not great, this book starts off roaring with Walter leaving his expectant girl friend (who has left her husband!) for some man-eater. The book failed for me later with some of the other characters getting too politically involved and too pompous. The down to Earth parts of this book involving Lucy, Walter and others were wonderful. The tragedies at the end left me scratching my head.
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Lots of people have overanalyzed and overhyped the books on this site, but let me tell you this: Point Counter Point is Huxley's finest work. Sure "The Doors of Perception" and "Brave New World" are popular titles, (popularized by quasi-intelligent hippies who THINK they understand things) but Point Counter Point really shows just how perceptive and thorough Huxley's literary style is. If you can disassociate Huxley's "cult" fans from his actual work, this is the one title I would reccomend. Stunning....
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Huxley's character portrayals are, as has been mentioned, sophisticated, fascinating and diverse, if not a little exaggerated. His ideas are, as always, well developed and insightful. The plot structure, as is typical in a character-driven novel, is virtually nonexistant - but we can forgive this. In fact, the only real problem I have with this book is a disagreement with Huxley's callow "whole person" thesis, which smacks of a kind of vague transcendentalism. Of course, this is a personal gripe, and I would encourage this book to anyone interested in a rather meandering examination of extreme personality types in early 1900's England.
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Huxley is stunning
I spent two weeks on this book, and I know that this masterpiece needs to be reread at least three more times to grasp Huxley's message. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. April 1999 von Walter Sobchak
An all-encompassing portrait of 1920's English intellectuals
This is simply an amazing book. Compulsively readable even while it dazzles with long bravura political/intellectual conversations. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. September 1998 veröffentlicht
completely engaging and very insightful
I thought Point Counter Point was probably one of the best books that I have ever read. What drew me in the most was the ability Huxley has to portray many characters, all of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. September 1998 veröffentlicht
Insightful satire of intellectual society
Wonderful reading, terrific character development, and Huxley does a great job of personifying the main characters, all of whom weave in and out of readers' focus and each... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. August 1998 veröffentlicht
Gran libro, inteligente autor
pienso que es un libro muy bueno, que realmente vale la pena leer. Destaco la gran capacidad del autor, para ver distintos puntos de vista y argumentarlos de la manera en que lo... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. August 1998 veröffentlicht
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