Island
novel by Huxley
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discussed in biography
- In Aldous Huxley
His last novel, Island (1962), is a utopian vision of a Pacific Ocean society.
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utopian novels
- In novel: Fantasy and prophecy
…a cautious utopian vision in Island (1962), but the dystopian horrors of his earlier novel and of his Ape and Essence (1948) remain more convincing. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) showed a world in which a tyrannic unity is imposed by a collective solipsism, and contradictions are liquidated through the constant…
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