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.
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 Ends 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.
Chinese government has been trying to build a harmonious socialism society these years. They wish people in that kind of society can live in harmony with each other, making the political, economical and cultural development. The various parts of the society...
評分最初了解到《美丽新世界》,是在初中时读的《科幻世界》。后来读《娱乐至死》,波兹曼不止一次提到本书,促成了我对其阅读的机会。第一次阅读本书是在大学时代,距今也7、8年了。当时的震撼至今难忘,但也留下了诸多困惑和不解。在那时写下的书评最后,我曾写下一连串疑问: “...
評分 評分说起反乌托邦的文学作品,乔治奥威尔的《1984》似乎在国内更享有盛名,相比之下,赫胥黎的《美妙的新世界》(美丽新世界)的知名度就要差上好多了。豆瓣上简单地一比,《1984》各个版本的读者加起来约有7000,而《美妙的新世界》却只有两三百人而已。 只因奥威尔所写的,几乎...
評分奥威尔担心我们憎恨的东西会毁掉我们,而赫胥黎担心的是,我们将毁于我们热爱的东西。 ——尼尔·波兹曼 我的身边有很多这样的同学,整天打英雄联盟,饿了吃饭,困了睡觉。我们的课程中有很多这样不得不去学习的课程,思想品德、马克思主义原理、毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义...
這部作品的想象力簡直是天馬行空,它構建瞭一個如此精緻而又令人毛骨悚然的未來社會。我一頭紮進這個被精心設計的“烏托邦”裏,就被那種無處不在的、令人窒息的秩序感給攫住瞭。從對情感的徹底規訓,到對個體自由的係統性抹殺,作者似乎在用一種近乎冷酷的精確度,描繪瞭一幅人類自我閹割心智的圖景。閱讀的過程中,我不斷地問自己:一個沒有痛苦、沒有衝突、隻有永恒滿足感的世界,真的值得我們追求嗎?那些被植入的“幸福感”更像是麻醉劑,讓人心甘情願地放棄瞭深度思考的權利。書中的社會階層劃分得如同流水綫上的産品一樣明確,每個人都在自己的槽位上高效運轉,而所謂的“野蠻人”角色的齣現,更像是對這個完美機器投下的一塊不和諧的石頭,迫使讀者去審視這種“完美”背後的巨大代價。我尤其欣賞作者對於語言和潛意識暗示的運用,它們如同無形的鎖鏈,將人們牢牢地睏在既定的軌道上,讓你在閱讀過程中也感到一種被操縱的寒意。這不僅僅是一部科幻小說,它更像是一麵冷峻的鏡子,反射齣我們這個時代對技術進步和即時享樂的盲目崇拜。
评分讀完後,我的內心久久不能平靜,仿佛剛從一場漫長而怪異的夢中醒來。這部小說的敘事節奏把握得非常高明,初看時,那種錶麵的和諧與安定會讓人産生一種錯覺,以為這或許就是人類進化的終極形態。但隨著情節的推進,那種隱藏在精緻包裝下的虛無感便如同潮水般湧來,將你徹底淹沒。我尤其被書中對“人性”的解構所震撼——那種對藝術、曆史、乃至深刻愛情的徹底摒棄,讓我感到一種深入骨髓的失落。它不僅僅是描繪瞭一個反烏托邦,它更像是一場哲學辯論,將“快樂”的定義推嚮瞭一個極端的、膚淺的層麵。作者巧妙地設置瞭幾個核心衝突點,每一次的碰撞都像是對現有價值觀的一次猛烈衝擊。最讓我感到不安的是,文中的某些技術和社會控製手段,在今天看來,似乎不再是遙不可及的幻想,而是有著某種令人脊背發涼的預言性。這種時代錯位感,讓這本書的閱讀體驗遠遠超齣瞭純粹的文學欣賞,更像是一次對未來生存狀態的預演。
评分這部作品的文學性是毋庸置疑的,它的語言充滿瞭冷峻的詩意和尖銳的諷刺。不同於那些直白地展現暴力的反烏托邦敘事,這裏的壓迫是溫和的、甚至是愉快的,這纔是最讓人不寒而栗的地方。它采取瞭一種近乎人類學觀察者的視角,冷靜地記錄著一個社會是如何通過優化一切來扼殺掉“人性”中最寶貴的部分——比如痛苦所帶來的深刻理解,以及對不完美事物的熱愛。我特彆留意瞭書中對於某些經典文學和宗教概念的戲仿和改造,那簡直是天纔之舉,用最熟悉的事物來構建最陌生的恐怖。每一次翻頁,都像是剝開一層糖衣,下麵是更硬、更冷的內核。作者似乎在用一種極度剋製的方式,錶達著對那種被技術和享樂主義腐蝕掉的文明的深刻悲哀。它沒有給予讀者一個簡單的答案或英雄,而是留下瞭一片巨大的、需要我們自己去填補的道德真空。
评分我必須承認,這本書的結構布局精妙得令人嘆服。它不像一部傳統的長篇小說,更像是一個精心編排的社會實驗報告,而我們,作為讀者,就是被邀請的觀察員。那種對社會體製的細緻入微的描繪,幾乎讓人可以聞到空氣中彌漫的閤成香氛和高效運行機器的氣味。最讓我産生共鳴的是其中關於個體身份認同危機的那一部分。當一個人的全部價值被量化、被預先設定,那麼“自我”這個概念還剩下多少重量?書中某些角色的掙紮和最終的結局,是如此的宿命且必然,讓人感嘆命運在強大的社會工程麵前是何等蒼白無力。我尤其欣賞它對感官愉悅的描繪,那種近乎催眠的、對即時滿足的頌揚,恰恰反襯齣精神世界是如何被架空和遺棄的。這本書的力度在於,它讓你在享受閱讀的流暢感的同時,卻無時無刻不被提醒,這種流暢可能正是通往深淵的坦途。
评分這本書給我帶來的震撼,是一種慢性的、逐漸積纍的毒性。它不是靠突如其來的驚嚇來抓住你的,而是通過一種潤物細無聲的方式,滲透你的認知。我發現自己在閱讀結束後,看待日常生活中那些為瞭追求“便捷”和“舒適”而做齣的選擇時,都會多一份警惕。作者對未來社會的構想,其高明之處在於,它沒有把未來描繪成一個灰暗的廢墟,反而是一個過度飽和、過度美好的“牢籠”。這種精緻的禁錮,比粗暴的鎮壓更難掙脫,因為它讓你愛上瞭束縛你的繩索。書中對集體主義與個體自由之間那條界綫的探討,是極其深刻的,並且隨著時間推移,這個問題變得愈發尖銳。通讀全篇,我感覺自己完成瞭一次對人類社會發展方嚮的深度審視,它迫使人去思考,在無限的進步追求中,我們究竟丟失瞭哪些無法彌補的、真正具有人性光輝的東西。
评分O have new world that has such people in it!!!! 啓濛書籍,但和第一次讀時完全是兩本書的感覺,how time flies.最後依舊虐慘瞭
评分Nothing comes for free, even happiness. What a disturbing masterpiece!
评分O have new world that has such people in it!!!! 啓濛書籍,但和第一次讀時完全是兩本書的感覺,how time flies.最後依舊虐慘瞭
评分civilisation???
评分Nothing comes for free, even happiness. What a disturbing masterpiece!
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