Learning counterpoint on your own art of composing. Huxleys insights on society and people are so on target and so truthful, its amazing. Aldous huxleys lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece point counter point. Free download or read online point counter point pdf epub book. Point counter point first edition by aldous huxley abebooks. 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.
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In aldous huxley s satire of the english upper classes between the world wars, the members of a social set make numerous personal, career, and political choices that have lasting and sometimes tragic repercussions. His ability to translate truth into words is incredible. One of huxley s masterpiecesone of the modern librarys. 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. Huxley sought a middle road betweeen the outofbody rationalism of philip and the animal pleasure he found so prevalent in the roaring twenties of his times. Works no more respectable than alcohol, and it serves exactly the same purpose.
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Walter is in love with the luscious but coldhearted lucy who devours every man in sight. 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. Along with brave new world written a few years later, point counter point is huxleys most concentrated attack on the scientific attitude and its effect on modern culture. Aldous huxley was born on 26 july 1894 near godalming, surrey. For the first time in my life, i think, i really recognized that books could be about more than the plot, and that good writing could make you love a book even if you loathed all the characters. In the 1920s, aldous huxley s novels presented what must have seemed rather scandalous notions of sexwith men and women openly having affairs. Best known for his novels and wideranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Full book point counter point by aldous huxley kindle. Review huxley s style is at once dry and rich, intellectual and sensuous, scholarly and romantic.
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Along with brave new world written a few years later, point counter point is huxley s most concentrated attack on the scientific. This now seems a rather unimportant part of point counter point. Point counterpoint by aldous huxley first 1928 from. Aldous huxley author aldous huxley came to literary fame in 1921 with his first novel, crome yellow. Point counter point by aldous huxley dalkey archive press. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Point counter point 1928 is the third huxley novel i have read in close succession, following crome yellow 1921 and eyeless in gaza 1936. 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. Sep 25, 2009 out of colossal disillusion huxley has made point counter point the most scintillating, the most bitter and the most serious of his novels. This story of 1920s intellectual life is inspired by classical music, employing a large cast of characters each essentially representing various versions of imbalance who are compared to instruments in an orchestra, each playing his separate portion of the larger piece. Though best known for brave new world, he also wrote countless works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and essays. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Net login register for bookmarks and favorites menu login. The aim of this book is not idle amusement for the sophisticated, but a grasping of the intellectual zeitgeist and a biting criticism of it. In later life, exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs dominated. Point counter point, published in 1928, is the longest and most ambitious of the four social satires aldous huxley published in the 1920s. 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 huxleys arty characters. Books by aldous huxley writers similar to aldous huxley. It is far closer to eyeless in gaza than to crome yellow in character. Pdf point counter point book by aldous huxley free.
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Here are 11 aldous huxley quotes for writers and about writing from the author of brave new world, point counterpoint, and the doors of perception. I think its most definitely worth reading but i havent read his other books yet. Aldous leonard huxley 26 july 1894 22 november 1963 was an english writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the huxley family he was best known for his novels including brave new world, set in a dystopian london, and for nonfiction books, such as the doors of perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, and a wideranging output of essays. Rather than a single protagonist, huxley offers a medley of characters, only a few of whom are especially sympathetic. Aldous huxley s point counter point is a sobering look at the interconnected plots of its central characters, none of whom live wholly satisfying lives or have favorable views of people or. The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like france or england, to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep. With the novels antic hay, those barren leaves and point counter point, huxley quickly established a reputation for bright, brilliant satires that ruthlessly passed ju. The first edition of the novel was published in 1928, and was written by aldous huxley. Aldous huxley was an english writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous huxley family. Free book point counter point by aldous huxley doc. Point counter point by aldous huxley penguin books. Google books point counter point by aldous huxley 1928 point counter point is a novel by aldous huxley first published in 1928. My frustrations with learning counterpoint on my own from books some facts and assumptions about learning counterpoint my first counterpoint lesson hint. Teaching aldous huxleys point counter point through beethovens music dana badulescu1 the world, transformed by industrys bold hand, the human heart, by newborn instincts moved, that have in burning fights been fully proved, your circle of creation now expand.
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