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  • E' abbastanza impressionante pensare che questo libro sia stato scritto nel 1932. Pur con tutte le ingenuità del caso, descrive un mondo distopico che potrebbe essere il sogno di alcuni potenti di oggi, Berlusconi su tutti. Non tanto e non solo la suddivisione in caste biologicamente selezionate, qu ... Continue

    E' abbastanza impressionante pensare che questo libro sia stato scritto nel 1932. Pur con tutte le ingenuità del caso, descrive un mondo distopico che potrebbe essere il sogno di alcuni potenti di oggi, Berlusconi su tutti. Non tanto e non solo la suddivisione in caste biologicamente selezionate, quanto l'elimininazione dell'arte e della scienza, della cultura e della conoscenza per condannare tutti alla felicità e alla stabilità. Uomini e donne condannati alla non solitudine, inebetiti dalla droga, inebriati dal sesso libero, condizionati notte tempo per essere felici nel ruolo che la società assegna loro. E anche i 'selvaggi', nelle loro riserve, non se la cavano un granché bene...
    In tempi di proteste contro la ministra-barzelletta dell'istruzione, sarebbe un'utile lettura, questa, nelle scuole italiane!

    

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  • A brilliant work

  • This sci-fi work is set in an utopian future of Earth in the 26th century.

    Family as an entity no longer exists. All babies are decanted artificially by fusing ovules and sperms and growing them. Eugenics is used to create 5 castes of humans known as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon, rang ... Continue

    This sci-fi work is set in an utopian future of Earth in the 26th century.

    Family as an entity no longer exists. All babies are decanted artificially by fusing ovules and sperms and growing them. Eugenics is used to create 5 castes of humans known as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon, ranging respectively from intelligent beings to morons. Each class is imbibed with the characteristics required for their future work by conditioning them (thinking for the Alphas, manual labour for the Epsilons and so on). Hypnopædia (sleep-learning) is extensively used while rearing children to ensure that they think in a predestined way all their life. Since they're all artificially grown, the concept of parents or siblings doesn't exist. Every person is a cell in the social body. Everyone takes artificial agents to ensure youthful beauty until their dying breath. Everyone belongs to everyone else, i.e. sex is promiscuous. Living with a single person for life is unheard of. There are no politics, war, family, literature or religions. Soma (a drug) is used by everyone to stay blissful all day. Everyone is happy.

    In this world is Bernard Marx, an Alpha who is dating a beautiful Beta named Lenina. He is tired of the artificial life and takes her on a trip to a savage reservation in New Mexico. These are inhospitable parts of the planet where uncivilized people have been allowed to stay as they had centuries ago. Here, Marx runs into a savage child named John, who is actually a child of a civilized mom. He takes him back to London. Meanwhile, Lenina is feeling love towards this savage. In the New World, John observes how his life in the forests differs so much from the controlled life in London. He has feelings towards Lenina too, but is turned off by her behaviour. Everything comes to a head when he causes a ruckus at a hospital. He is taken to meet Mustapha Mond, the Resident World Controller (think Architect from Matrix Reloaded) along with Marx and his fellow thinker Helmholtz. In his office, John and Mond confront each other and it leads to an enthralling discussion about the gains and losses by living like they are in this controlled artificial society. In the end, Marx and Helmholtz are transferred to distant islands and John moves back to a solitary life in the wild.

    Written in 1932, Brave New World is a surprisingly good read even today. (The book is available online.) The pace is quick, the flavour is light. Huxley is brilliant in recreating his utopian world. The book can be roughly divided into 3 parts. The 1st introduces the new world in rich detail. The 2nd introduces the protagonists and the last part deals with the debate between Mond and John. The last part is what makes delightful reading. The reader finally learns how this world came to be, how humanity slowly gave up its freedom in exchange for happiness. This is a thrilling and brilliant work filled with ideas. Recommended.

    

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  • Distopía genial.

  • Esta novela es el otro gran referente de la distopía en la literatura de ciencia ficción junto con 1984. No decepciona en ningún momento. Tiene algunas escenas que aún me inquietan al recordarlas, y un final que da que pensar. Muy recomendable.
    Lo peor de este libro es que todo lo que cuenta e ... Continue

    Esta novela es el otro gran referente de la distopía en la literatura de ciencia ficción junto con 1984. No decepciona en ningún momento. Tiene algunas escenas que aún me inquietan al recordarlas, y un final que da que pensar. Muy recomendable.
    Lo peor de este libro es que todo lo que cuenta empieza a parecerme cada vez más cercano.

    

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• ― Lord Henry said on Jul 15, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Drogati & felici

  • per forza, con citazione Shakespeariana nel titolo e nel contesto. Se poi qualcosa non va come previsto sono guai. F.to.: Delta minus

    

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  • Direi 2 stelline e mezza. All'inizio e' noioso tanto che pensavo di abbandonarlo. Poi da circa pagina 88 la storia ha iniziato ad essere un po' piu' interessante. Comunque sia e' un libro angosciante.

    

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  • Ho un rapporto difficile con questo libro. Da un lato non posso non riconoscere ad Huxley una lucidità d'analisi inquietante e una ricchezza immaginativa lodevole, dall'altro non amo molto il suo periodare ed il suo lessico. L'insieme narrativo, corposo, è mal gestito dall'autore. La lettura non è a ... Continue

    Ho un rapporto difficile con questo libro. Da un lato non posso non riconoscere ad Huxley una lucidità d'analisi inquietante e una ricchezza immaginativa lodevole, dall'altro non amo molto il suo periodare ed il suo lessico. L'insieme narrativo, corposo, è mal gestito dall'autore. La lettura non è agevole, non ti vien la voglia di divorare il libro intero, quanto piuttosto di saltar pagina.
    Apprezzabilissimo è invece "Ritorno al Mondo Nuovo", una serie di microsaggi che costruiscono parallelismi fra il mondo reale e il mondo distutopico narrato da Huxley, disponibile in appendice di molte edizioni.

    

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• ― Laura M. said on Nov 9, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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