Aldous Huxley Magnet

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), one of the greatest intellectual novelists of all time, was born in England All his work is a quest for values in the face of scepticism." Jocelyn Brooke (1954) found Huxley, "despite the homogeneity of his writings …, a strangely paradoxical figure: an intellectual who profoundly distrusts the intellect, a sensualist with an innate loathing for the body, a naturally religious man who remains an impenitent rationalist." This is a digitally recreated portrait of Aldous Huxley based on a photograph taken in 1925 by Henri Manuel /anonymous origin.