Английская оригинальная обезьяна и Essence Ape и Essential Adui Huxley Vintage Classic Series
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Описание товара
Заголовок:Ape and Essence
Автор:Aldous Huxley
Название издательства:Vintage Classics
Опубликованная дата:2005
Английский язык
ISBNА9780099477785
Размер товара:12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm
Упаковка: Тихий океан
Количество страниц:176(Принимая фактический объект)
A dystopian classic
In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet. Ape and Essence is Huxley's vision of the ruin of humanity, told with all his knowledge and imaginative genius.
Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, 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) -Брайт, блестящие сатиры, в которых Хаксли остроумию, но безжалостно принял суждение о недостатках современного общества. 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 account of his first mescaline experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954). Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.
Review
Конечное видение ужасов -но не с юмором- Los Angeles Times
Ape and Essence Оставляет нас в смешанной смоле интеллекта автора и отвращения к миру, который он создал Independent
Clever, brutal, thoughtful, original...a nauseating vision of a still-possible future -- Anthony Burgess
Сильно движущийся- Times Literary Supplement
Мучительно и величественно яркие; Guardian
