NICHOLAS MURRAY

Set in London, Nice, The Greek Isles and Tuscany, this is a beautifully crafted and utterly convincing portrait of infidelity and its repercussions. Characters live in the worlds of classical music, journalism, fashion-modelling and architecture in search of contentment in an increasingly complex yet superficial world. This is a

Esta nueva biografía de Kafka, la primera publicada en los últimos veinte años, traza un impresionante retrato del hombre que está detrás de la obra. Reexamina su larga y tortuosa relación con Felice Bauer, a quien abandono en medio de la desesperacion, su vinculo igualmente complicado con la apasionada Milena Jesenska, y la felicidad de sus ultimos meses con Dora Diamant.A traves de una sensible relectura de la ficcion de Kafka a la luz de estas experiencias, Nicholas Murray propone una nueva mirada sobre la obra y el individuo.

The son of biologist T.H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille, his eyesight then improved enough for him to start writing and by the 1920s he had become a fashionable figure, producing witty and daring novels like "Crome Yellow" (1921), "Antic Hay" (1923) and "Point Counter Point" (1928). But it is as the author of his celebrated portrayal of a nightmare future society, "Brave New World" (1932), that Huxley is most remembered. A truly visionary book, "Brave New World" was a watershed in Huxley's world-view as his later work became more and more optimistic - coinciding with his move to California and experimentation with mysticism and psychedelic drugs later in life. Nicholas Murray's biography is a reassessment of one of the most interesting writers of the 20th century.