Tuesday, January 3, 2012

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

Finished Tu 1/3/12

This is the January selection for the library's Classical Book Club, and I plan to attend on Monday, 1/9 at noon.

Stylistically this is a fairly difficult novel to appreciate, but his ideas of the future are very striking for a book written in 1932.

"Soma is Christianity without the tears"
"History is Bunk"

There is so much on-line about this novel it is almost not necessary to actually read it. According to Wikipedia it is the fifth best novel of the 20th century.

I think that the major theme of the work is that in the future, modernity trades Truth and Beauty for Comfort and Peace of Mind. The characters are merely 'cut-outs' which advance Huxley's philosophical points.

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