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En su obra, Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) cuestionó las normas y convenciones sociales, buscó despertar el sentido crítico en sus lectores y llegó a imaginar, con tremenda lucidez, la conformación de un mundo deshumanizado. Huxley provenía de una familia aristócrata, de tradición científica. Abordó temas muy distintos entre sí, como el poder y efecto de sustancias alucinógenas (las cuales él mismo probó), la parapsicología y el misticismo oriental; en sus propias palabras, este último le hacía -sentir que a pesar de la muerte y del sufrimiento todo está, de algún modo y en última instancia, perfectamente en orden-. Su obra incluye ensayos, novelas y libros de viajes. La erudición y el tono de ironía le proporcionaron a su creación un original sello, lo que la convirtió en una de las más trascendentes del siglo XX.
608 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1963
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Aldous Huxley
964 books13.7k followersAldous 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.
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.
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September 22, 2020
No es un libro sencillo, por momentos incluso es difícil de entender y en lo personal tuve que releer algunas partes. Mis favoritos fueron “Nueva visita a un mundo feliz” y “Mono y esencia”. Un obligado para los fans de las distopías.
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