Le Meilleur des mondes

Name: Le Meilleur des mondes
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Dystopia, Novel by Aldous Huxley, Fred Fordham

Blurb

Le Meilleur des mondes est un roman d'anticipation dystopique, écrit en 1931 par Aldous Huxley. Il parait en 1932. Huxley le rédige en quatre mois seulement, à Sanary-sur-Mer, dans le sud de la France. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, Huxley publie un essai dédié à ce livre, Retour au meilleur des mondes, insistant notamment sur les évolutions du monde qu'il perçoit comme allant dangereusement vers le monde décrit dans son ouvrage. Le titre original du roman, Brave New World, provient de La Tempête de William Shakespeare, acte 5 scène 1. John, le « Sauvage », reprend souvent cette phrase dans le roman. Dans la pièce de Shakespeare, la phrase est ironique et la traduction française reprend la même ironie, mais en référence à la littérature française : le « meilleur des mondes possibles » du Candide de Voltaire.
Le roman a été adapté à la télévision en 1980 et en 1998.

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