
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...





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《美丽新世界》奥尔德斯-赫胥黎著名的文学作品,也是二十世纪文学史上经典的反乌托邦科幻文学之一。这部作品与乔治-奥威尔的《1984》、扎米亚京的《我们》并称为世界三大"反乌托邦"奇书。书中引用了广博的生物学、心理学知识,故事设定的时间是公元25世纪左右,那时的人类已经把汽车大王亨利-福特尊为神明,并以之为纪年单位。在这个"美丽新世界"里,机械化的统治甚至在人类的胎儿阶段就开始了。正是在这个"美丽新世界"里,人们失去了个人情感,失去了爱情--性代替了爱,失去了痛苦、激情和经历危险的感觉。可怕的是,人们失去了思考的权利,失去了创造力。故事主线是一个"人类残次品"在这种环境下想要脱离群众,却终失败的故事。《再访美丽新世界》是赫胥黎在写作《美丽新世界》27年后推出的。《再》是一篇几万字的评论性文章,阐述了《美丽新世界》的预言性和20世界后半叶资本主义生活存在的诸多问题;重要的是,作者着重比较了他的小说《美丽新世界》和乔治-奥威尔的《1984》,并对《1984》做了大篇幅的评价。...
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Aldous Huxley's classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, published in 1932, imagined a future society ruled by science and managed by sophisticated social control mechanisms. Huxley tested the progress of his forecasts against reality nearly thirty years later in Brave New World...




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Examines society today in reference to Huxley's earlier work, Brave New World.
