ABSTRACT
Aldous Leonard Huxley has published ten novels in the last thirty-four years. Without exception, from Crome Yellow in 1921 to The Genius and the Goddess in 1955, these novels have been in some degree about intellectuals, and have been filled with their talk on the dizzily intersecting planes of esthetics, psychology, history, science, and mysticism. If Emerson's scholar is Man Thinking, then Huxley's intellectual has often seemed to be Man Talking. But despite their ceaseless clacking of tongues and ping-pong of ideas, these intellectuals have also acted out the amusing and terrifying fables of Huxley's satirical invention, and have thus traced the journey of a brilliant critical intellect through the jungle of twentieth-century life toward his declared goal of 'individual psychological freedom.'
