In the canon
Point Counter Point
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1928
- Pages
- Pages 430
Pongileoni's flute at Tantamount House, a Bach suite unspooling through a crowded drawing room, every guest hearing a different truth in the same air. Huxley builds a whole novel from that moment, running his people like voices in a fugue, one theme taken up in a dozen incompatible keys.
The musicalization of fiction. Not in the symbolist way, by subordinating sense to sound.
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