Monday, January 27, 2020

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

‘Brave New World, a novel published in 1931, is an understated novel that contains between its covers, some of the most important messages to liberate humanity out of the clutches of wilful slavery.

The novel represents a continuous struggle between happiness and the necessary evil, sedated minds don’t constitute a utopia, minds which don’t appreciate literature, philosophy, and art, mechanized brains designed to receive inundated amounts of pleasure and intoxication, in the guise of the most desirable word ‘happiness’.

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Sunday, January 19, 2020

The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

'The Swimming Pool Library’ is a novel that amazes the reader with its unique outlook for delicate and deep psychological insights, it turns out to be surprising and in the end, very moving.

‘The Swimming Pool Library’ is an amazing title choice for the novel, it is poetic, lyrical, breezy, casually charming and wonderfully metaphorical, hinting at the flowing sexual escapades of characters, and especially the coming of age of William Beckwith, as he realises and awakens to the fact when he is planning his book, that Charles’ diary is not only a beautiful evidence of personal struggle but it is a haunting portrait of homosexual life in the world.

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