Counterpoint. Genius and Goddess
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Counterpoint. Genius and Goddess
19.99 €
"Counterpoint"
Aldous Huxley's largest work, describing several months in the life of the intellectual London elite. There are no main characters or main plot line. Like musical counterpoint, which involves the combination of two or more melodic voices, Huxley's novel is an interweaving of different destinies, a story about the lives of many people who somehow fall into the writer's field of vision.
They meet in cafes and restaurants, go to high society receptions, quarrel, gossip, and slander. There is no purpose in all this - one meaningless polyphony. This is how Huxley looks at his contemporaries, and today's reader will certainly hear many familiar voices in this choir.
"Genius and the Goddess"
A love triangle... It seems like a rather banal story.
The plot of the novel is really simple: a famous scientist has a divinely beautiful wife. And a young talented student. Of course, passion flares up between the student and the "goddess". This can't lead to anything good. What else can you expect from a love triangle?
But Aldous Huxley managed to fill this story with depth, to touch upon the most important questions about fate and personal choice, about the conflict between feeling and duty, about honor and love.
Aldous Huxley's largest work, describing several months in the life of the intellectual London elite. There are no main characters or main plot line. Like musical counterpoint, which involves the combination of two or more melodic voices, Huxley's novel is an interweaving of different destinies, a story about the lives of many people who somehow fall into the writer's field of vision.
They meet in cafes and restaurants, go to high society receptions, quarrel, gossip, and slander. There is no purpose in all this - one meaningless polyphony. This is how Huxley looks at his contemporaries, and today's reader will certainly hear many familiar voices in this choir.
"Genius and the Goddess"
A love triangle... It seems like a rather banal story.
The plot of the novel is really simple: a famous scientist has a divinely beautiful wife. And a young talented student. Of course, passion flares up between the student and the "goddess". This can't lead to anything good. What else can you expect from a love triangle?
But Aldous Huxley managed to fill this story with depth, to touch upon the most important questions about fate and personal choice, about the conflict between feeling and duty, about honor and love.
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