by Aldous Huxley · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408461821
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«Viejo muere el cisne» is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published by Planeta in hardcover (292 pages, in Spanish).
A Hollywood millionaire terrified of death and his personal physician, who investigates a theory about longevity, are the focus of this mordant satire. Huxley portrays the human desire to live indefinitely and the contradictions of someone trying to cheat the passage of time.
Originally published as After Many a Summer in 1939, it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; it belongs to the Clásicos Contemporáneos Internacionales collection.
For readers of social satire and classic narrative who appreciate fictions with a philosophical tone.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.
