Krasni novi svet

Dystopia, Novel by Aldous Huxley, Fred Fordham

Blurb

Krasni novi svet je antiutopični roman angleškega pisatelja Aldousa Huxleyja iz leta 1932.
Roman je nastal iz različnih pobud, zlasti družbeno-političnih, književnih in biografskih. Obisk Združenih držav Amerike leta 1925 je Huxleya navdal s črnogledostjo glede kulturne prihodnosti Evrope. Med potovanjem okoli Azije je Huxley v ladijski knjižnici odkril knjigo Henryja Forda z naslovom My Life and Work. Maja 1931 je nekemu časnikarju dejal, da piše roman o prihodnosti iz zgroženosti nad utopijo H. G. Wellsa in iz protesta proti njej.
Že pred tem se je nekajkrat javno rogal utopičnemu Wellsovemu romanu Men Like Gods, ki po njegovem mnenju upodablja ljudi kot »dejavne, optimistične, strpne in ravnodušne«. Čeprav sta si Huxley in Wells v marsičem nasprotovala, sta se skladala z zavračanjem parlamentarne demokracije in v mnenju, da je treba družbo hierarhično preurediti tako, da jo bo nadzorovala duhovna elita strokovnjakov. Prvotni Huxleyev namen je bil napisati satiro na Wellsov utopični roman in čudni kalifornijski svet z »z neizmišljenimi vprašanji sodobnosti«
Polom na Wall Streetu oktobra 1929 je sprožil svetovno gospodarsko krizo.

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