num_pages: 432
description: 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.
language: English
title: Point Counter Point
titlecomplete: Point Counter Point
characters: Walter Bidlake, Edward Tantamount, Frank Illidge, Molly d'Exergillod, Marjorie Carling, Denis Burlap, Hilda Tantamount, Elinor Bidlake, Mary Rampion, Maurice Spandrell, Sidney Quarles, Beatrice Gilray, Lucy Tantamount, Philip Quarles, Everard Webley, Mark Rampion, John Bidlake
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, English Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 11530
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press