A review by elanna76
The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley

5.0

I re-read this book in the English language 1970 edition by Chatto and Windus after a very early reading in Italian when I was fourteen. My opinion about it is unchanged.
Masterpiece. I think it is one of the books that most influenced my formation as a thinking human being. I am not a mystic at all, and I don't share many of Huxley's views on spirituality, but his narration is enthralling, powerful and elegant, and his explanation of the mechanisms of control over the masses in the Appendix are a brilliant display of synthetic explanatory skills.