Oct 10, 2008

Point Counter Point | Point Counter Point

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Author: Aldous Huxley
First Published: 1928
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: The 1920’s
Setting: England
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Roman à clef
Subjects: Middle classes, Marriage, 1920’s, Novelists, England or English people, Adultery, Moral conditions, Satire
Locales: London, England

Characters Discussed

Walter Bidlake, a literary critic in London. An essentially weak and confused man, he is unhappy in his extramarital relationship with Marjorie Carling and seeks some kind of better realization in an affair with Lucy Tantamount. The author regards Walter as an example of the emptiness of the intellectual life unsupported by sound instinctual expression.

Marjorie Carling, Walter’s unhappy mistress. She has left Carling because of his perversion and yet behaves with Walter, to all effects and purposes, like a nagging wife rather than a cheering...

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Point Counter Point | Point Counter Point

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