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Brave New World

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by Aldous Huxley
Hardback
Publication Date: 02/12/2013
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Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

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...
ISBN:
9781841593593
9781841593593
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
02-12-2013
Publisher:
Everyman
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
264
Dimensions (mm):
212x133x23mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, 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 account of his first mescalin experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954. Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.

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Although there are so many yet to read, this to me is close to the best novel of the 20th century. Orwell's 1984 may garner more attention but I feel that Huxley's dystopia is more relevant to a post-Cold War world. While I would agree with some of the prevailing opinion that the writing in Brave New World is not particularly enjoyable, it contains some very interesting ideas about the future. As noted in the introduction every generation imagines the future based on their present technology but some aspects of Huxley's dystopia seemed to relate well to today. Obviously shallow entertainment for the masses like the 'Feelies' is not unique to recent times but the idea of not allowing privacy and everyone 'belonging' to everyone else seems relevant in the age of social media and data collection.

There are many more themes to discuss from Brave New World but in summary Brave New World is a brilliant piece of work by Aldous Huxley and highly recommended for any deep thinker. The conversation towards the end with Mustapha Mond alone is worth the read. He came up some great names here too. Arch-Community Songster of Canterbury was one of my favourites.

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