Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable.
High spurts the fountain fierce and foamy the wild jet. Recommended biographyĭavid King Dunaway's Huxley in Hollywood provides a history of the California years his Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History combines the memories of those close to him.
Adaptationsīrave New World has sadly never succeeded on film Ken Russell's typically hysterical The Devils, with Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, is based on The Devils of Loudun. Try also Walter M Miller's 1959 post-nuclear apocalypse A Canticle for Leibowitz. Now read onīrave New World completes the great triptych of twentieth-century dystopias: the others are George Orwell's 1984, born out of post-war brutalism, and Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, a response to Soviet totalitarianism (thus Huxley's novel, published in 1932, is perhaps the least reactive and most futuristic). His circle included DH Lawrence (on whom Rampion in Point Counter Point is modelled) he was widely read in science and eugenics, and took much inspiration, especially in later work, from Herman Hesse, Blake (from whom he garnered 'doors of perception'), and Eastern mystical writings. Recommended worksīrave New World is a twentieth-century must-read (see also Brave New World Revisited, Huxley's second thoughts two decades later) his chapbook of belief, The Perennial Philosophy, is illuminating on the direction of his thoughts. The Doors of Perception confirmed his status among students of hallucinogens: mescaline "is without any question the most extraordinary and significant experience available to human beings this side of the Beatific Vision". He genre-hopped throughout, from his first novel, the proto-Waugh cynical country-house satire Crome Yellow, to SF morality tale, Dystopia, and finally the unusual form of genuine utopia (The Island is his sincere recipe for a perfect society). Burgess described Huxley as giving the novel a brain, and he is widely seen as an ideas-merchant who chose to use the novel form (his later work became increasingly didactic). Huxley's close friend Gerald Herd said that his elite ancestry "brought down on him a weight of intellectual authority and a momentum of moral obligations". Ignoring the doctor in attendance, she complied. On his deathbed, too weak to speak, he wrote a request to his wife: "LSD - try it - intramuscular - 100 mmg". Huxley said of LA, "Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. Other jobsĪfter emigrating to the States, he turned his hand to screenwriting (adapting Pride and Prejudice, with Laurence Olivier, as well as working on versions of Jane Eyre and Alice in Wonderland).
Eton Balliol College, Oxford (studying English the rapid deterioration of his eyesight at 16 ruled out a hoped-for scientific career).
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