Return to the Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley's book "Return to the Brave New World" was first published back in 1958, – and it is all the more interesting to read it nowadays: in this work, the great English writer and philosopher, in his polemical manner, drew parallels between the Western civilization of the bourgeois "golden age" of the 1950s and the dystopian totalitarian "consumer paradise" described in his most famous work of fiction — the novel "Brave New World". Time and again, Huxley compared the fictional world he had imagined many years ago, a distant future, with the very real world that surrounded him at the time of writing "Return" — and time and again, he found signs of a frightening, dangerous, and increasingly apparent resemblance...
Where was he right, and where did he err? Which of his predictions did not come true, and which, alas, came true with sad accuracy? The answers to these questions, strangely enough, are far from obvious…
Author:
Author:Huxley A.
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Politics & Social Science
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Dimensions:
Dimensions:18x11.5x1.4 cm
Series:
Series:Exclusive Classics (Best)
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-158394-1
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