Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...
Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
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. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along the Road (1925). 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.
最初了解到《美丽新世界》,是在初中时读的《科幻世界》。后来读《娱乐至死》,波兹曼不止一次提到本书,促成了我对其阅读的机会。第一次阅读本书是在大学时代,距今也7、8年了。当时的震撼至今难忘,但也留下了诸多困惑和不解。在那时写下的书评最后,我曾写下一连串疑问: “...
评分Chinese government has been trying to build a harmonious socialism society these years. They wish people in that kind of society can live in harmony with each other, making the political, economical and cultural development. The various parts of the society...
评分与1984相比,这个世界似乎要美好的多,人们不需要压抑自己的欲望,可以尽可能的作乐。是个幸福的世界,但是又很恐怖,因为很多世界观是我们接受不了了,没有父母,没有亲人,没有家庭,没有婚姻,没有爱。人们只是做着自己该做的和想做的。人是被按照需要创在出来的,而且千篇...
评分阿道司.赫胥黎在其经典著作《重返美丽新世界》的结尾里,简要地描述了实施“关于自由的教育”的必要性。或许由于赫胥黎对未来持悲观看法,这一终章给人的感觉是:自由价值的失败不可避免,其捍卫者所能做的,仅仅是拖延失败的来临,以及以“平静的良心”(欧里庇得斯语)拒绝在...
评分奥威尔担心我们憎恨的东西会毁掉我们,而赫胥黎担心的是,我们将毁于我们热爱的东西。 ——尼尔·波兹曼 我的身边有很多这样的同学,整天打英雄联盟,饿了吃饭,困了睡觉。我们的课程中有很多这样不得不去学习的课程,思想品德、马克思主义原理、毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义...
这本书给我带来的震撼,是一种慢性的、逐渐积累的毒性。它不是靠突如其来的惊吓来抓住你的,而是通过一种润物细无声的方式,渗透你的认知。我发现自己在阅读结束后,看待日常生活中那些为了追求“便捷”和“舒适”而做出的选择时,都会多一份警惕。作者对未来社会的构想,其高明之处在于,它没有把未来描绘成一个灰暗的废墟,反而是一个过度饱和、过度美好的“牢笼”。这种精致的禁锢,比粗暴的镇压更难挣脱,因为它让你爱上了束缚你的绳索。书中对集体主义与个体自由之间那条界线的探讨,是极其深刻的,并且随着时间推移,这个问题变得愈发尖锐。通读全篇,我感觉自己完成了一次对人类社会发展方向的深度审视,它迫使人去思考,在无限的进步追求中,我们究竟丢失了哪些无法弥补的、真正具有人性光辉的东西。
评分这部作品的想象力简直是天马行空,它构建了一个如此精致而又令人毛骨悚然的未来社会。我一头扎进这个被精心设计的“乌托邦”里,就被那种无处不在的、令人窒息的秩序感给攫住了。从对情感的彻底规训,到对个体自由的系统性抹杀,作者似乎在用一种近乎冷酷的精确度,描绘了一幅人类自我阉割心智的图景。阅读的过程中,我不断地问自己:一个没有痛苦、没有冲突、只有永恒满足感的世界,真的值得我们追求吗?那些被植入的“幸福感”更像是麻醉剂,让人心甘情愿地放弃了深度思考的权利。书中的社会阶层划分得如同流水线上的产品一样明确,每个人都在自己的槽位上高效运转,而所谓的“野蛮人”角色的出现,更像是对这个完美机器投下的一块不和谐的石头,迫使读者去审视这种“完美”背后的巨大代价。我尤其欣赏作者对于语言和潜意识暗示的运用,它们如同无形的锁链,将人们牢牢地困在既定的轨道上,让你在阅读过程中也感到一种被操纵的寒意。这不仅仅是一部科幻小说,它更像是一面冷峻的镜子,反射出我们这个时代对技术进步和即时享乐的盲目崇拜。
评分读完后,我的内心久久不能平静,仿佛刚从一场漫长而怪异的梦中醒来。这部小说的叙事节奏把握得非常高明,初看时,那种表面的和谐与安定会让人产生一种错觉,以为这或许就是人类进化的终极形态。但随着情节的推进,那种隐藏在精致包装下的虚无感便如同潮水般涌来,将你彻底淹没。我尤其被书中对“人性”的解构所震撼——那种对艺术、历史、乃至深刻爱情的彻底摒弃,让我感到一种深入骨髓的失落。它不仅仅是描绘了一个反乌托邦,它更像是一场哲学辩论,将“快乐”的定义推向了一个极端的、肤浅的层面。作者巧妙地设置了几个核心冲突点,每一次的碰撞都像是对现有价值观的一次猛烈冲击。最让我感到不安的是,文中的某些技术和社会控制手段,在今天看来,似乎不再是遥不可及的幻想,而是有着某种令人脊背发凉的预言性。这种时代错位感,让这本书的阅读体验远远超出了纯粹的文学欣赏,更像是一次对未来生存状态的预演。
评分这部作品的文学性是毋庸置疑的,它的语言充满了冷峻的诗意和尖锐的讽刺。不同于那些直白地展现暴力的反乌托邦叙事,这里的压迫是温和的、甚至是愉快的,这才是最让人不寒而栗的地方。它采取了一种近乎人类学观察者的视角,冷静地记录着一个社会是如何通过优化一切来扼杀掉“人性”中最宝贵的部分——比如痛苦所带来的深刻理解,以及对不完美事物的热爱。我特别留意了书中对于某些经典文学和宗教概念的戏仿和改造,那简直是天才之举,用最熟悉的事物来构建最陌生的恐怖。每一次翻页,都像是剥开一层糖衣,下面是更硬、更冷的内核。作者似乎在用一种极度克制的方式,表达着对那种被技术和享乐主义腐蚀掉的文明的深刻悲哀。它没有给予读者一个简单的答案或英雄,而是留下了一片巨大的、需要我们自己去填补的道德真空。
评分我必须承认,这本书的结构布局精妙得令人叹服。它不像一部传统的长篇小说,更像是一个精心编排的社会实验报告,而我们,作为读者,就是被邀请的观察员。那种对社会体制的细致入微的描绘,几乎让人可以闻到空气中弥漫的合成香氛和高效运行机器的气味。最让我产生共鸣的是其中关于个体身份认同危机的那一部分。当一个人的全部价值被量化、被预先设定,那么“自我”这个概念还剩下多少重量?书中某些角色的挣扎和最终的结局,是如此的宿命且必然,让人感叹命运在强大的社会工程面前是何等苍白无力。我尤其欣赏它对感官愉悦的描绘,那种近乎催眠的、对即时满足的颂扬,恰恰反衬出精神世界是如何被架空和遗弃的。这本书的力度在于,它让你在享受阅读的流畅感的同时,却无时无刻不被提醒,这种流畅可能正是通往深渊的坦途。
评分not as well written as 1984 but more relatable
评分如果真有那样一个世界——没有疾病,没有痛苦,没有衰老,淡定面对死亡,生命早已被写好,每个人照着既定的线路没有抱怨没有遗憾地走完,这未尝不是好的选择。现实世界不缺乏美好却也充满了残酷,有得必有失,就看你如何权衡。
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...I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
评分It isn’t meant dystopia. There are alternative for the future. “Indeed, unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from...”
评分如果小说的预言能够成真,我想未来不会是1984,反而是“美丽新世界”
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