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Admirável Mundo Novo
Será admirável o nosso novo mundo? A quem serve esta civilização que se diz moderna e funcional e, ao aparato das técnicas, sacrifica o espírito?... O espírito, considerado realidade menor, o espírito tolerado, quando não reprimido... Qual, o lugar do homem, numa sociedade dominada pela máquina? Qual, o caminho para o Indivíduo que reivindique a liberdade interior e o direito à sua... individualidade, à sua singularidade? Para o Indivíduo que queira caminhar pelos próprios pés? Aldous Huxley, um dos maiores escritores contemporâneos, descreve, em «Admirável Mundo Novo», com fantasia e ironia implacável, a sociedade futura totalitarista. Simplesmente, o universo que o grande romancista inglês anima pertence, de certo modo, aos nossos dias. Quase já não pode considerar-se uma ameaça: tomou corpo. O que empresta à leitura desta obra uma força trágica invulgar. Mundo novo? Mundo intolerável? Mundo inabitável? Mundo de onde se deve fugir, de qualquer maneira? Ou, mundo a reconstruir - pedra por pedra? Com uma pureza reconquistada? Aldous Huxley deixa-lhe este montinho de problemas que o leitor poderá - se quiser e souber... - resolver...
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Aldous Huxley
779 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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January 8, 2024
Muito bem adaptado! O dialgo final resume muito bem a ideia central do livro
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