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

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

看完这本书我是无比的悲哀。之所以悲哀是因为我认同这个可怕的乌托帮，我也无比坚定的相信我们的世界正在向那个方向发展。身在世界上最先进最富有的国家，这种感受尤为强烈。电视节目的完全娱乐化，每一个人群都有麻醉自己的节目；所有的声音都告诉你，你应该满足于现在这样的...  

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...  

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...  

曾经有幸参加过一次读书会，主题乔治奥威尔，不外乎是谈《动物庄园》与《1984》。当时在场的更多人是更喜欢《动物庄园》，而我对那本书却没什么很深刻的感觉，只很喜欢《1984》。当然《1984》也是有不少讨论的，一片引申，而我却只在旁听与发呆，基本没有发言。只是现在回想起...  

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

O have new world that has such people in it!!!! 启蒙书籍，但和第一次读时完全是两本书的感觉，how time flies.最后依旧虐惨了

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”

果然词汇量毁了我的耐心，找的陈亚萍译本对照着看完。反乌托邦三部曲至此终于读完，毫无疑问最爱还是《1984》。 波兹曼在《娱乐至死》里探讨的社会就是《美丽新世界》里这个文明社会，一切都是被预定好的，你的出身，社会分工，包括你的意识，这个世界里没有悲伤，没有思考的痛苦，因为有soma，没有亲情，友情，爱情的束缚，因为没有parents，没有婚姻，滥交是被允许，甚至鼓励的，这里看起来很自由，但实质上连这种自由都已经被predestined. 所以究竟什么是自由，这种意识不到的不自由是自由吗？

O have new world that has such people in it!!!! 启蒙书籍，但和第一次读时完全是两本书的感觉，how time flies.最后依旧虐惨了

还是比较喜欢1984