Time Must Have a Stop
by Aldous Huxley 
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Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, who introduces him to life's profane pleasures. The novel that Aldous Huxley himself thought was his most successful at "fusing idea with story, " Time Must Have A Stop is part of Huxley's lifelong attempt to explore the dilemmas of show more twentieth-century man and to create characters who, though ill-equipped to solve the dilemmas, all go stumbling on in their painfully serious comedies (in this novel we have the dead atheist who returns in a seance to reveal what he has learned after death but is stuck with a second-rate medium who garbles his messages). show lessTags
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It's not terribly interesting, being a story of beautiful and selfish teenager Sebastian who tries to slake his lusts with older women and also get a dinner jacket from his leftie London father and his rich uncle in Italy, who dies about half way through and then tries to communicate with the living, to no avail. Huxley probably thought he was being funny, but the humour has not really lasted.
It's not terribly interesting, being a story of beautiful and selfish teenager Sebastian who tries to slake his lusts with older women and also get a dinner jacket from his leftie London father and his rich uncle in Italy, who dies about half way through and then tries to communicate with the living, to no avail. Huxley probably thought he was being funny, but the humour has not really lasted.
One of Huxley's odder books, though really, that's not saying much: all are odd, and few have the stamp of NORMALCY about them.
This starts off in standard Huxley dark comedy, and then turns to an afterlife story. Well worth reading.
This starts off in standard Huxley dark comedy, and then turns to an afterlife story. Well worth reading.
Halfway through this satire I realized it was futile to view it as anything but entertainment. Huxley's wallowing in trifle and snobbery bowled him over. It is unfortunate that this wasn't just one novel in a string of many depicting the same characters, because a series of novels would have made for an elevated soap opera. I would surely have gone through the whole series with gusto.
the novels Mr. Huxley wrote in the 40's take a different tone than the essays he was writing at the time. it is clear that fiction escapes him, although his flair for writing still shows. 'TIme must have a stop' is a strange combo between auto-biography and satire. It is not an exciting book like many of his others, often times I found myself losing attention. but not every novel an author writes can be great, although Aldous comes close. This one is only for hardccccore Huxley addicts, and those with a more analytical approach.
A NOTE TO COMPLEMENT THE OTHER REVIEWS. MY COPY HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN PART OF THE LIBRARY OF WRITER AND BAND LETTER -- ARTIE SHAW
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Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Surrey, England, into a distinguished scientific and literary family; his grandfather was the noted scientist and writer, T.H. Huxley. Following an eye illness at age 16 that resulted in near-blindness, Huxley abandoned hope of a career in medicine and turned instead to literature, attending Oxford show more University and graduating with honors. While at Oxford, he published two volumes of poetry. Crome Yellow, his first novel, was published in 1927 followed by Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, and Point Counter Point. His most famous novel, Brave New World, published in 1932, is a science fiction classic about a futuristic society controlled by technology. In all, Huxley produced 47 works during his long career, In 1947, Huxley moved with his family to southern California. During the 1950s, he experimented with mescaline and LSD. Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, both works of nonfiction, were based on his experiences while taking mescaline under supervision. In 1959, Aldous Huxley received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on November 22, 1963. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Zeit muß enden
- Original title
- Time must have a stop
- Original publication date
- 1944
- People/Characters
- Sebastian Barnack; Uncle Eustace; Uncle Bruno
- Epigraph
- By thought’s the slave of life, and life’s time’s fool,
And time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. - First words
- Sebastian Barnack came out of the reading room of the public library and paused in the vestibule to put on his shabby overcoat.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Affectionately, he took his father’s arm. “What about going to see if everything’s all right in the spare room?”
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