Eyeless in Gaza

Aldous Huxley · 1894–1963 · England

Why it matters

A cynical Englishman's road to pacifism unfolds in scrambled, non-chronological fragments spanning three decades, structure itself enacting the disorder his convictions are trying to resolve. Huxley's most formally daring novel, and his own favorite among his books.

At a glance

Chapters jump nonlinearly across three decades, requiring the reader to reconstruct chronology.