Point Counter Point
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Point Counter Point, published in 1928, was Aldous Huxley's fourth novel.
Like his earlier and later novels, Point Counter Point can hardly be summed up in a single plot. One—possibly in retrospect particularly interesting—story or motive in the book is the rise of a British fascist party and its conspicuous tough-acting leader. This development leads up to a climax towards the end of the book, where through painful experience the discovery is made that decisive strikes rarely, if ever, can right wrongs.
Quite fittingly so, Huxley's Point Counter Point could be described as a novel of ideas, but to just call it that would possibly not do justice to the rich descriptions of individual human characters and their complex interactions. This too, is where Huxley's acumen and ruthless dead-level honesty excels. His character descriptions have often been called cynical and even caustic, but calling them that might actually detract from what comes across throughout the book, in all the big and little tales it tells: In his descriptions and observations, in the novel's characters' elaborate conversations, then just as today, Huxley and the saner of his characters mostly do have a point.
External link:
Somaweb.org (http://www.somaweb.org/) - a third party site about Huxley's works in general