Aldous Huxley
The best representative of the intellectual stream in the English novel is Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963). A. Huxley was a grandson of the great natural historian Thomas Huxley. He brought analytical scientific methods into fiction. In Antic Hay (1923) he depicted, in a humorous way, irresponsible people who try to have fun. In his masterpiece Point Counter Point (1928) he presented a picture of the crisis in bourgeois society. He excelled in recording the uncertainty[1] and aimlessness of intellectuals after World War I. Influenced by Lawrence, he wanted to achieve a harmonious balance between emotions and intellect, flash and reason. In this novel he put into contrast two different characters, Philip Quarles, an intellectual struggling hopelessly and tragically to acquire simple human happiness, and the well-balanced personality of Mark Rampion, living a full and happy life. The plots in Huxley's novels only form the background and are not all-important. Growing up in a purely intellectual family, Huxley understood that exclusive concentration on intellectual activity tends to hinder genuine human happiness. In his Utopian fantastic novels Brave New World (1932) a Brave New World Revisited (1958), he created a dreadful[2] vision of the future world where children are produced by chemical reactions. He criticised with satire the beliefs in a mechanical world. His last science-fiction novel Ape and Essence (1948), is a protest against atomic wars. It is a vision of the twenty-second century when people return to primitive life after the world has been destroyed by atomic bombs
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