Eyeless in Gaza: A Novel
Autor Aldous Huxleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2009
“A genius . . . a writer who spent his lifetime decrying the onward march of the Machine.” — The New Yorker
First published in 1936--and hailed as his best work--EYELESS IN GAZA is Aldous Huxley's loosely autobiographical novel of one man’s search for an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world. Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate, comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. His life, loves, and foreign adventures leave him unfulfilled, until he meets a charismatic doctor who inspires Anthony to become a Marxist and join the Mexican revolution—a disastrous embrace of violence that leaves the doctor with one leg. Shattered by the experience, Anthony forges a new, quasi-Buddhist philosophy that embraces pacifism. EYELESS IN GAZA remains one of Huxley’s most enduring novels, a testament to the challenges and rewards of bold, vigorous thinking.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780061724893
ISBN-10: 0061724890
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper Perennial Modern Classics
ISBN-10: 0061724890
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley's bold, nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. Unfulfilled by his life, loves, and adventures, Anthony is persuaded by a charismatic friend to become a Marxist and take up arms with Mexican revolutionaries. But when their disastrous embrace of violence nearly kills them, Anthony is left shattered—and is forced to find an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world.
Recenzii
“An important book . . . Without parallel in our contemporary literature.” — New York Times Book Review
“We are, it is safe to say, on the eve of a Huxley revival.” — Los Angeles Times
“His best work.” — The Economist
“Of Huxley’s 11 novels only Eyeless in Gaza (1936) is a complete artistic success. — Washington Post Book World
“Huxley’s finest novel.” — New Statesman
“A genius . . . a writer who spent his lifetime decrying the onward march of the Machine.” — The New Yorker
“We are, it is safe to say, on the eve of a Huxley revival.” — Los Angeles Times
“His best work.” — The Economist
“Of Huxley’s 11 novels only Eyeless in Gaza (1936) is a complete artistic success. — Washington Post Book World
“Huxley’s finest novel.” — New Statesman
“A genius . . . a writer who spent his lifetime decrying the onward march of the Machine.” — The New Yorker
Notă biografică
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, and the author of nearly 50 books-novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. He was a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of the 20th century, he avidly explored mysticism and the cogency of universal truths; his most famous work, Brave New World, presented his dystopian vision of modern Western culture, countered by the utopian vision of his final novel, Island.
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW
Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way to live.