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Tag Archives: connections
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
This is one of Huxley’s early novels, published after Crome Yellow, and which takes as its subject the fevered neurotics of the 1920s, which he surveys with a mordant eye. Theodore Gumbril, bored pedagogue, is sitting in chapel one day, … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 New Reads, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged 1920s fiction, Aldous Huxley, art, avant-garde, beards, boredom, coincidence, connections, high-brow, inventions, mistaken identity, morals
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Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
‘Cloud Atlas’ comes garlanded with superlatives, being David Mitchell’s third novel, after ‘Ghostwritten’ and ‘number9dream’. It has an interesting structure: ABCDEFEDCBA: where each letter represents one strand of story. The tales are each slightly connected through allusions in the others. … Continue reading
Posted in 2009 New Reads, Fiction, Reviews, Science fiction
Tagged cloning, coincidence, connections, evil corporations, greed is bad, love, mult-stranded narrative, travel
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