Brave New World

Paperback

Huxley, Aldous 저자(글)

VINTAGE · 2007년 12월 06일

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WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAW

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...

Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

작가정보

저자(글) Huxley, Aldous

1894년 출생. 영국 출신의 소설가이자 비평가로, 이튼 칼리지와 옥스퍼드 대학교를 졸업했다. 지적 정보와 함께 재치와 풍자로 가득 찬 다양한 방면의 저술 활동으로 유명한 헉슬리는 20세기 관념소설의 큰 줄기를 이룬 대표적 작가다. 1916년 시집 '불타는 수레바퀴'를 출간한 이래 몇 권의 시집을 더 냈으나, 일생동안 소설 창작에 심혈을 기울이게 된 것은 소설 '크롬 옐로우'(1921)가 인정을 받게 된 후부터였다. 일반적으로 그의 대표작이라고 여겨지는 '연애대위법'(1928)은 갖가지 모습의 1920년대 지식인들이 풍자적으로 묘사된 작품으로, 이 소설로 그는 20세기를 대표하는 작가의 한 사람이 되었다. 이 밖에도 과학문명에 지배되어 가는 사회에 대한 날카로운 비판의식이 돋보이는 '멋진 신세계'(1932), 평화운동을 추구하는 작가 자신을 그린 '가자에서 눈이 멀어'(1936), 폭력의 부정을 역설한 '목적과 수단'(1937), 제3차 세계대전을 가상해서 쓴 '원숭이와 본질'(1948) 등이 있다. 그 외에도 '어릿광대의 춤(Antic Hay)', '하찮은 이야기(Those Barren Leaves)', '연애대위법(Point Counter Point)', '멋진 신세계(Brave New World)', '가자에서 눈이 멀어(Eyeless in Gaza)', '목적과 수단(Ends and Means)', '원숭이와 본질(Ape and Essence)', '루당의 악마(The Devils of Loudun)', '천재와 여신(The Genius and the Goddess)', '아일랜드(Island)' 등을 집필하였다.

Aldous Huxley was born on 26th July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, but it was his first novel, 'Crome Yellow' (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by 'Antic Hay' (1923), 'Those Barren Leaves' (1925) and 'Point Counter Point' (1928) - bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in 'Along The Road' (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work 'Brave New World' (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel 'Eyeless in Gaza' (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as 'Music at Night' (1931) and 'Enda and Means' (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction ('Time Must Have a Stop', 1944 and 'Island', 1962) and non-fiction ('The Perennial Philosophy', 1945, 'Grey Eminence', 1941 and the famous account of his first mescalin experience, 'The Doors of Perception', 1954. Huxley died in California on 22nd November 1963.

기본정보

ISBN	9780099518471 ( 0099518473 )
발행(출시)일자	2007년 12월 06일
쪽수	288쪽
크기	131 * 193 * 19 mm / 218 g
언어	영어

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