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Dystopia, Novel by Fred Fordham, آلدوس هاکسلی

Blurb

دنیایِ قشنگ نو یا دنیای شگفت‌انگیز جدید یک رمان علمی-تخیلیِ پادآرمانی است که در سال ۱۹۳۲ به قلم آلدوس هاکسلی نویسنده انگلیسی منتشر شده‌است.
وقایع این رمان در سال ۲۵۴۰ میلادی در شهر لندن می‌گذرد و آرمانشهری را به تصویر می‌کشد که در آن مهندسی ژنتیک به آفرینش انسانها با ویژگی‌های از پیش تعیین شده منجر شده، نظام اخلاقی جامعه با تشکیل حکومت جهانی و از میان بردن جنگ و فقر و نابودی کامل خانواده و تولید مثل به کلی پوست انداخته و دانش روان‌شناسی به طرز حیرت‌انگیزی اعتلا یافته و تنها هدف انسان ایجاد سعادت و از میان بردن رنج‌های غیر ضروری است. در این دنیای قشنگ نو، داشتن رابطه جنسی با بیش از یک شریک جنسی، برای افراد فضیلت به‌شمار می‌آید، و تک‌همسری امری شرم‌آور و نامتعارف است.
هاکسلی در سال ۱۹۵۸ در مقاله‌ای با نام بازدیدی دوباره از دنیای قشنگ نو به سیر وقایع اتفاقیه ۲۶ سال گذشته پرداخت و مدعی شد که تمدن بشری با سرعتی بسیار بیشتر از پیش‌بینی‌های او در حال حرکت به سمت این دنیاست.

First Published

1932

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Aleksandra.marinkovic

Just keep in mind throughout the book that it was written in 1931. You will be devastated every time you remember that.

0 Responses posted in December

Sofiia

first of all, i am very happy that i purchased an edition with a beautiful introduction of yuval noah harari. „the climatic dialogue between mustapha mond and john the savage is among the most profound discussions of technology, happiness and the meaning of life in modern western philosophy.“ i followed his advice and as i reached this dialogue, in other words the culmination, i could clearly see how society destroyed a moral in order to reach an eternal comfort. we are striving for a society which would have no trouble in living, no choice and no problems, but if no bad side exists will we continue to stay human? because we are the creatures, for whom it’s natural to make mistakes, to fight for something. and as we see in this book, pressing a natural „bad“ side of human turns them into a vegetable (nice phrase which use to describe people during totalitarian regime in ukraine) and completely erases a personality. „you got rid of them. yes, that’s just like you. getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it, whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… but you don’t do either. neither suffer nor oppose. you just abolish the slings and arrows. it’s too easy.“ and further consequences, which we can see is a disappearance of all forms of art because what? right, because the point of art is highlighting problems in society and a person in an aesthetically pleasing way. and as an example there was a shakespeare and a bible, which was considered to be „a pornographic literature“. but of course we need no problems. but still we will continue „to advance“ to a flawless society, a brave new world. at this point, we will have to try also to save a morality, cherish culture and literature and don’t reject our natural human side.

0 Responses posted in August