Aldous Huxley was born on 26th July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) - bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop, 1944 and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945, Grey Eminence, 1941 and the famous account of his first mescalin experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954. Huxley died in California on 22nd November 1963.
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through the clever mix of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, everyone is a happy consumer. Bernard Marx seems alone in his discontent.</p>
这些天,痛苦一遍遍地翻腾。在放纵心灵和等待麻木的过程中,我读到了《美丽新世界》。 那不一定是想象中的救赎,但至少带来了安慰。 不想讨论它的反乌托邦涵义和显而易见的政治讽喻,我只知道老赫胥黎穿越74年的时光让我明白孤独和痛苦意味着激情未泯,灵魂仍然品尝得到渴望的...
评分2503年,一个婴儿养育室里。护士们在地板上摆了一堆图书和鲜花,然后把一群长得一摸一样的、8个月大的婴儿放到了地板上。婴儿们看到图书和鲜花,飞快地爬过去,拿起来玩耍。这时候,长官一声令下,护士长启动电路装置,一时间,刺耳的警报响起,地板被通上了电,触电的...
评分《美丽新世界》是儿子借来看的,看完递给我说:你也看看吧。 他总是在看些我不知道的东西,小时候怕他成为文艺男,拼命把他往体育活动和理科男方向拉。看的都是恐龙、十万个为什么以及数学经典等等。但是大概从初中起风向变了,他自己找东西看,从欧美漫画到侦探小说科...
评分首先说,看这本书来自neil.postman的《娱乐至死》,后来才知道其与奥威尔的《1984》,扎米亚京的《我们》并称为反乌托邦三部曲,在postman看来《美丽新世界》和《1984》描绘的是两个相反的未来,而在读过此书后,我觉得这种相反反而只是表面上的。内在来看,他们描绘的都是又精...
评分根本主题应该是超验的“自由意志”到底存不存在。在自由的前提下去看是一种洗脑,但如果意识不是超验的,这个新世界就没什么毛病。在做出价值判断的瞬间我们已经被我们所接受的自由之人性、天然之意识的概念洗脑了不是吗?
评分常读常新,尤其是在伦敦读这本书更觉有趣。
评分“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
评分近期最佳阅读体验。前半部是Huxley的带刺嘲讽,越炫目越可笑。Hypnopaedia、Ford、Bokanovskified、soma、pneumatic,这些词注定与aeon共存。这是Comfortably Numb的世界。最有深意的是对亲人关系的解构,对“一个人独有”的嘲弄。到Savage Reservation之后,开始看到转机,看到“Dictator”的没落-- 颠覆了颠覆,看到Bernard的Vicissitude(悲哀的人性,容易被侵蚀的灵魂),看到Lenina动人外貌下的无知浅薄,(Impudent Strumpet!最残酷的还是John难以控制的情感与贞洁的较量)。一个奇怪的设定是Mustafa的“人格分裂”。结尾的鞭打是高潮,革命还是没有发生。难过,泪崩。
评分太牛了,community identity stability。 最后群众的"we want the whip",令人脊背发凉。
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