Description
A dazzlingly intricate portrait of intellectual and artistic life, this novel follows a wide circle of London characters whose relationships, ambitions, and convictions intersect in revealing and often turbulent ways. Through their conversations, romances, rivalries, and personal crises, it explores the tensions between reason and passion, idealism and hypocrisy, art and politics, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Its innovative, contrapuntal structure gives multiple voices and perspectives equal weight, creating a vivid social panorama rather than a single, conventional narrative. Witty, cerebral, and psychologically incisive, the work showcases a distinctive modernist style while questioning whether any one philosophy can adequately explain human experience.
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paperback
Flamingo
Published Jan 1, 1994
448 pages
ISBN: 9780006547280
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Details
First Published
1928
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley.