圖書標籤: 反烏托邦 AldousHuxley 小說 英文原版 英國 Dystopia 英國文學 政治
发表于2024-08-02
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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.
娛樂緻死的評價:Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. 但是有辦法嗎,咱們不就是一群成天想著gradient descent的東西嘛....
評分果然詞匯量毀瞭我的耐心,找的陳亞萍譯本對照著看完。反烏托邦三部麯至此終於讀完,毫無疑問最愛還是《1984》。 波茲曼在《娛樂至死》裏探討的社會就是《美麗新世界》裏這個文明社會,一切都是被預定好的,你的齣身,社會分工,包括你的意識,這個世界裏沒有悲傷,沒有思考的痛苦,因為有soma,沒有親情,友情,愛情的束縛,因為沒有parents,沒有婚姻,濫交是被允許,甚至鼓勵的,這裏看起來很自由,但實質上連這種自由都已經被predestined. 所以究竟什麼是自由,這種意識不到的不自由是自由嗎?
評分The solution is either taking soma or comitting suicide.
評分civilisation???
評分娛樂緻死的評價:Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. 但是有辦法嗎,咱們不就是一群成天想著gradient descent的東西嘛....
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...
評分首先说,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...
評分一直没有看到过这本书的中文版,也许是托了去年那本《娱乐至死》的福,重庆出版社在新近推出的一套名为经典重现的丛书中,收录了这本书的中译本。这套丛书还收录了一些在西方读者心目中地位甚高,但编者认为被中国读者忽略的文学作品,比如已出的《秘密花园》和《华氏451》,...
評分《读药》第115期:幸福和稳定的代价——解读《美丽新世界》 专题地址http://book.ifeng.com/shupingzhoukan/special/duyao115/ 如果没有人强迫,你为何如此生活——读《美丽新世界》 文/郝景芳(科幻作家) 凤凰网读书频道《读药》周刊独家专稿,如无授权,请勿转载。 《...
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