Brave New World

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.

出版者:Vintage Classics

作者:Aldous Huxley

页数:288

出版时间:2007-12-6

价格:GBP 8.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780099518471

图书标签:反乌托邦AldousHuxley小说英文原版英国Dystopia英国文学政治

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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.

读后感

《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...  

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》，...  

英剧《黑镜》中就刻画的是这个美妙的新世界。人们穿着相同的衣服，生活在高科技的虚拟房间里，每天通过踩单车换取点数，除了踩单车外，人们就只呆在房间里，用虚拟货币收看电视，更换自己的虚拟形象，这简直就是《娱乐至死》和《美妙新世界》的结合体。 回到《美妙新世...  

这版让人特别抓狂就是为了减少人名的讽刺性把很对一看就是有所指的人名变成了音译，以让人减少联想。没看过其他版本的翻译，借助百科，还原人名指代和暗含之意。 柏纳德·马克斯，Bernard Marx，这个名字是George Bernard Shaw（乔治·萧伯纳和Karl Marx（卡尔·马克思）。萧...  

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...  

用户评价

或许比1984更加可能。

娱乐致死的评价：Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. 但是有办法吗，咱们不就是一群成天想着gradient descent的东西嘛....

娱乐致死的评价：Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. 但是有办法吗，咱们不就是一群成天想着gradient descent的东西嘛....

娱乐致死的评价：Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. 但是有办法吗，咱们不就是一群成天想着gradient descent的东西嘛....

I dont like this novel, but i like some of the characters