TIME MUST HAVE A STOP

by Aldous Huxley ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 23, 1944

A novel reminiscent of the earlier Huxley, lacking the questing, the questioning, the social and moral implications of the period of Eyeless in Gass. Almost wholly an indulgence in polite and impolite satire, in brilliant badinage among the fine arts, and in decimation; in the closing pages alone, he permits his central character to deliver some higher philosopho-metaphysical observations. There is no strict story pattern here; no thesis; no conclusion. It is a portrait of an er, a generation, a chosen cast. The era is the early thirties; the setting London and Genoa; the cast includes Mrs. Gamble, acidulous old lady, blind, seeking amusement in spiritualise; Veronica, her , composed, calculating, using her physical charms to material advantage; tace, Mrs. Gamble's so-in-law, a hedoist and a rake at fifty odd, whose appetites bring on his sudden death; Sebatian, his 17-year old nephew, with the face of a Della angel and a fiendish imagination, a postic gift and an infantile sensuality which has been restricted by shyness. Eustace dies and goes to the upper regions for visitations to Mrs. Gamble; Sebastian achieves his first eduction by Veronics be begins a career of deceit and depravity which women will encourage -- and never satisfy, a fact it takes him ten years to realise. Extraordinary erudition, nasty wit, nihilism, for a prime performance which will have only a critical, intellectual audience.

Pub Date: Aug. 23, 1944

ISBN: 1564781801

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1944

Categories: FICTION