ASIN: B07NNX1KSP
Publisher: Lume Books (February 11, 2019)
Pages: 457
The author and the pacifist dream… In the summer of 1937, the author of Brave New World travelled to America to lecture in pacifism. The leading literary figure in an atmosphere of post-World War One cynicism, Aldous Huxley had adopted a position that was to become increasingly unpopular, even in sybaritic California. But by that time he was an ensconced exile in paradise. A well-paid script writer under Hollywood contract, he also wrote novels amidst a circle of distinguished exiles such as Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Mann, old friends Christopher Isherwood and Bertrand Russell, and charming natives like Anita Loos. Dunaway conducts an unforgettably engaging tour through the twists of Huxley’s fate in the US — from celebrity to despair and isolation, through agonies of conscience and the quest for inner vision. The portrait that emerges is a considerable contribution to literary ...
