Il mondo nuovo - Ritorno al mondo nuovo

14.1 x 2.3 x 21.5 cm, 384 pages

Italiano language

Published March 25, 2021 by A. Mondadori.

ISBN:
978-88-04-73582-3
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4 stars (9 reviews)

Scritto nel 1932, "Il mondo nuovo" è ambientato in un immaginario Stato totalitario del futuro, nel quale ogni aspetto della vita viene pianificato in nome del razionalismo produttivistico e tutto è sacrificabile a un malinteso mito del progresso. Il culto di Ford domina la società mentre i cittadini, concepiti e prodotti industrialmente in provetta, non sono oppressi da fame, guerra, malattie e possono accedere liberamente a ogni piacere materiale. In cambio del benessere fisico, però, devono rinunciare a ogni emozione, a ogni sentimento, a ogni manifestazione della propria individualità. Produrre, consumare. E, soprattutto, non amare. Un libro visionario, dall'inesausta forza profetica, sul destino dell'umanità. E sulla forza di cambiarlo. Al romanzo, qui per la prima volta accompagnato dalla fondamentale Prefazione che lo stesso autore scrisse nel 1946, segue la raccolta di saggi "Ritorno al mondo nuovo" (1958) nella quale Huxley tornò a esaminare le proprie intuizioni alla luce degli avvenimenti …

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A bit too "on-the-nose"

3 stars

I guess it might be the point of the book, but I couldn't feel that any character was real, everything felt stereotypical; while at the same time that "prediction" of the future does not seem plausible to me.

And I repeat, it might be the point of the book, so, if that is the case, then great job. I just did not enjoy it or gained any interesting insight.

Another Authoritarianism dystopian classic. A difficult read however.

3 stars

Read this immediately afte reading the Orwell classic, 1984. I admit, I struggled reading this book. The method of story telling, with the switching of character perspective was difficult to follow. The idea of the book became far more clearer as the book progressed and became clear especially towards the end.

However the ideas presented in the book and their demonstration was thought provoking.

Review of 'Brave New World' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

There is much to be learned from reading this book and it is easy to forget that it was written early in the last century, not this one. Sadly, the warnings Huxley offers about what society was becoming were largely ignored and we've come to a society that so closely mirrors his "civilization" that it could have been a metaphor about our current state of affairs written by a contemporary author.

It is a very short novel but full of warnings and lessons that are as applicable, or even more so, today as they were in 1930. It is a lesson in mass manipulation by the media and big pharma. It is a lesson in treating people ultimately as mere resource rather than persons. And it is a lesson in extremes, extreme pain v. extreme pleasure and the wrongheadedness in submitting to either.

Review of 'Brave New World' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

(Crossposted from my blog: daariga.wordpress.com/2006/09/24/brave-new-world/)

Brave
New World and 1984 are 2 books which I’ve been wanting to read for a long time. One is in an Utopian world and the other in dystopia. I finally got around to reading Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley. 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 …

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