ABSTRACT
It is a pity that Aldous Huxley is not a better-perhaps one should say a completer novelist-for he has written a novel which is at least the equal, if not the superior, in intellectual and spiritual content, of any in our time. For all its structural faults Eyeless in Gaza is an important and portentous book-one that no thinking man or woman of the twentieth century can read without stimulation and deep respect. In this novel Huxley has faced his age more fully than any other novelist writing in English: he has shut his eyes to none of its terrifying aspects, he has evaded none of its problems, and he has given us, in result, the picture of an individual man groping for a way of life that will bring
meaning and purpose to his existence which is quite without parallel in our contemporary literature.
