![]() ![]() Rewrite the book-and in the process of rewriting, as an older, other person, I should probably get rid not only of some of the faults of the story, but also of such Its defects as a work of art are considerable but in order to correct them I should have to That is why this new Brave New World is the same as the old one. One's middle age in trying to mend the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth-all this is surely vain and futile. To pore over the literary shortcomings of twenty years ago, to attempt to patch a faulty work into the perfection it missed at its first execution, to spend The badness should be hunted out, acknowledged and, if possible, avoided Remorse,įor example is as undesirable in relation to our bad art as it is in relation to our bad behavior. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.Īrt also has its morality, and many of the rules of this morality are the same as, or at least analogous to, the rules of ordinary ethics. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can andĪddress yourself to the task of behaving better next time. 'A grave warning.Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is almost undesirable sentiment. The consequences are profound and.deeply disturbing' John Humphries, Sunday Times 'What Aldous Huxley presented as fiction with the human hatcheries of Brave New World has become fact. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAW Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. ![]() Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. ![]() Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwoodįar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. 'The best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient.' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian classic Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future, which feels ever closer to our new reality. ![]()
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