Summary
Aldous Huxley: Counterpoint
"Counterpoint" is certainly Huxley's most significant novel, born from thinking about the inner duality of man between reason and passion. Painting a larger fresco of English high society, Huxley gives a self-portrait in the central character of P. Quarles, and in the character of M. Rampion a portrait of his contemporary, writer S. W. Lawrence. The themes of the novel are intertwined according to the rules of musical architecture, and thus the panorama of English post-war high society and its intellectual problems is given in a striking way.
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