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The theme is pure Huxley: intelligent, open-minded man gets shipwrecked on a remote tropical island where the native population has managed to create a utopia. The man meets a variety of people over a period of days who explain Pala's (the name of the island) unique culture.
Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.
Book Reviews on... Island. by Aldous Huxley. Recommendations from our site. “His final novel, Island, is a kind of blueprint for a society wherein the ecstatic is balanced with the Socratic.
17 Αυγ 2015 · In his final novel, Island, Aldous Huxley created a vision of utopia where the Pacific island of Pala is an “oasis of happiness and freedom,” free from the trappings of capitalism, consumerism, and technology. Some say that the Island is an example of humanity at its sanest and most admirable.
Island is a 1962 novel by Aldous Huxley. It tells the story of Will Farnaby’s experience on an isolated island called Pala. The novel is written in third person limited omniscient point of view focused on Will’s perspective.
That peculiar fiction was his final novel Island, for Huxley died of cancer a year later. It is a Utopian synthesis of Eastern religion and Western science. No doubt Huxley's most famous and probably his most enduring work is the cynical, satirical, but all-too-prophetic dystopia of 1932, the effort, its
8 Ιουλ 2013 · Huxley’s purpose for Island was to embody a safe haven where humanity could work to provide enlightenment on a better way of living. Fifty years later it remains not only current but still prescient and remains a guide to Holistic contentment.
