Целительный отдых

by Aldous Huxley, Олдос Хаксли

Рассказы

После фейерверка
Целительный отдых
Монокль
И зажили они счастливо
Евпомп прославил искусство числами
Книжная лавка
Юный Архимед
Цинтия
Клакстоны
Зеленые туннели

543 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1930

About the author

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.

Reviews

[Marieta Marieta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vários contos, todos eles com personagens que provocam reflexão, inquietação, surpresa. Aldous Huxley !!

[Arjun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Incredibly insightful book and written with a sense of purpose. Key aspects: love, doubt, pathos and the fraility of the human condition.

Favourite quote - "Awful! The life had nearly killed her. And it wasn't (she had come at last to realise), it wasn't a life at all. It was just galvanic activity, like the twitching of a dead frog's leg when you touch the nerve with an electrified wire. Not life, just galvanized death.

[Red · Rating 3 out of 5]

Отличные рассказы, может только "зеленые туннели" чуть меньше понравились.
Очень простые, ясные, может быть даже слишком такие "в лоб", но эта прямота качественная, как всегда у Хаксли.