Aldous Huxley

The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent, harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining …

Contrapunto es posiblemente la novela más ambiciosa y lograda de Huxley y la que dio mayor fama internacional, pues en ella da forma literaria al contrapunto musical, alternando acciones simultáneas que avanzan en paralelo y demostrando que eso es posible y funciona en una novela. Se convierte así en la historia …