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Brave New World de Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Autor Aldous Huxley
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2020

Descoperim în Brave New World o lectură stratificată, care debutează cu un ritm alert al prezentării unei lumi „perfecte”, pentru a se transforma treptat într-o analiză filozofică densă despre prețul fericirii. Apreciem modul expansiv în care Aldous Huxley construiește Statul Mondial, unde sistemul tehnologic nu este doar un decor, ci fundamentul existenței: de la eprubetele de condiționare genetică din Centrul de Incubație, până la utilizarea medicamentului „soma” pentru a elimina orice urmă de suferință. Cine a citit Brave New World Revisited va recunoaște aici rădăcinile teoretice ale avertismentelor lui Huxley despre suprapopulare și propagandă, însă romanul original se distinge prin forța sa narativă, oferind o experiență viscerală a pierderii identității într-o mare de divertisment. Remarcăm o structură riguroasă, susținută în această ediție de note editoriale și eseuri critice care ancorează ficțiunea în realitatea politică. Dacă în alte lucrări precum The Divine Within sau The Doors of Perception, Huxley explorează potențialul mistic și expansiunea conștiinței, aici el investighează polul opus: limitarea programată a spiritului uman prin tehnologie. Cartea este organizată pentru a ne ghida de la macro-structura socială a castelor (Alpha, Beta, Gamma) până la drama individuală a „Sălbaticului” John, singurul personaj care mai posedă limbajul emoțiilor autentice într-o lume care a abolit istoria și arta. Este o operă care nu doar prezice viitorul, ci disecă mecanismele puterii subtile, fiind la fel de provocatoare astăzi ca în momentul publicării sale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789390354597
ISBN-10: 9390354595
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: TingleBooks

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție cititorilor care vor să înțeleagă rădăcinile literaturii distopice moderne. Dincolo de povestea captivantă, câștigi o perspectivă critică asupra societății de consum și a modului în care confortul poate deveni un instrument de control. Este o lectură esențială pentru oricine este interesat de etica tehnologiei și de conservarea spiritului uman într-o lume dominată de algoritmi și divertisment facil.

Despre autor

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963) a fost un scriitor și filozof englez de o erudiție rară, nominalizat de nouă ori la Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură. Provenind dintr-o familie de intelectuali celebri, a explorat în cele aproape 50 de volume ale sale teme variate, de la satira socială și eseul politic, până la misticismul universal. Deși este recunoscut global pentru viziunea sa distopică din Brave New World, spre finalul vieții s-a dedicat explorării conștiinței umane și a utopiei, publicând Island (1962). A fost o voce critică la adresa mecanizării societății, rămânând unul dintre cei mai influenți gânditori ai secolului XX.

Notă biografică

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford with a first class honours in English literature. The author of nearly fifty books, he was best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian future; for non-fiction works, such as The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug; and a wide-ranging output of essays. Early in his career Huxley edited the magazine Oxford Poetry and published short stories and poetry. Mid career and later, he published travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. In 1962, a year before his death, he was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. Huxley was a humanist, pacifist and satirist. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, in particular universalism. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years.

Descriere scurtă

The novel is set in A.F. 632, approximately seven centuries after the twentieth century. A.F. stands for the year of Ford, named for the great industrialist Henry Ford who refined mass production techniques for automobiles. World Controllers rule the world and ensure the stability of society through the creation of a five-tiered caste system. Alphas and Betas are at the top of the system and act as the scientists, politicians, and other top minds, while Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are at the bottom and represent the world's industrial working class. A drug called soma ensures that no one ever feels pain or remains unhappy, and members of every caste receive rations of the drug. Pre- and post-natal conditioning further ensures social stability. Brave New World opens with the Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre giving a group of young students a tour of the facilities. An assembly line creates embryos using the latest advancements in science. The students view the various techniques for producing more babies and watch as the process segregates babies into various castes. After the babies are decanted from their bottles, they are conditioned through Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopaedia. In Neo-Pavlovian conditioning, babies enter a room filled with books and roses. When the babies approach the books or the roses, alarms and sirens sound, and the babies receive a small electric shock, which frightens them so that when they confront the same items for a second time, they recoil in fear. Hypnopaedia teaches babies and children while they are asleep by playing ethical phrases numerous times so that the phrases will become a subconscious part of each person.

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Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future. Read the dystopian classic that inspired the Sky TV series. EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSEWelcome to New London.

Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs.

You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost.

'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale 'A grave warning... Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
 

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Foreword Brave New World Editorische Notiz Literaturhinweise Nachwort

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Now more than ever, “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our brave new world.
Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order whose motto is “Community, Identity, Stability”—all at the cost of our freedom, humanity, and perhaps our souls.
“A genius who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning as we head into tomorrow and a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a twenty-first-century world dominated by mass  entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

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“[A] masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century.” — Wall Street Journal
“As sparkling, as provocative, as brilliant...as the day it was published.” — Martin Green
“One of the 20th century’s greatest writers.” — Washington Post
“Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” — Providence Journal-Bulletin
“A genius . . . a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.” — The New Yorker
“Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English.” — Chicago Tribune
“Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy of 1931. It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” — New York Times Book Review
“A sometimes appallingly accurate view of today’s world.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“It’s time for everyone to read or reread Brave New World.” — Raleigh News & Observer