David Bradshaw Libri

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. INTRODUCED BY MARGARET ATWOOD Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete surveillance - no matter the cost. 'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale 'A grave warning... Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer 'Huxley's great dystopian novel' Guardian **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

In questi due saggi di Aldous Huxley il tema fonda­mentale dell'indagine filosofica intorno alla natura dell'uomo e alla natura delle cose si arricchisce di nuovi e importanti elementi conoscitivi attraverso un metodo d'indagine abbastanza insolito. È lo stes­so autore, infatti, che riferisce di sé, del suo "sé" segreto e altrimenti inconoscibile, avvalendosi delie amplificazioni percettive procurategli dalla mescali-na, il principio attivo di una droga già nota da tempo immemorabile agli indiani del Messico. In questo stato di allucinazione, Huxley arriva a vedere una nuova essenza delle cose, in un mondo in cui le categorie di spazio e di tempo non predominano più e nel quale tutto ciò che gli accade al di dentro e all'intorno è scisso da qualsiasi sensazione utilitari­stica. Il breve testo di Grazia e Renato Boeri, che chiude il volume, definisce l'ambito culturale in cui si collocano questi saggi e ne mette in risalto gli aspetti letterari, storici e scientifici.

A Passionate Apprentice comprises the first years of Virginia Woolf's Journal - from 1879 to 1909. Beginning in early January, when Woolf was almost fifteen, the pages open at a time when she was slowly recovering from a period of madness following her mother's death in May 1895. Between this January and the autumn of 1904, Woolf would suffer the deaths of her half-sister and of her father, and survive a summer of madness and suicidal depression. Behind the loss and confusion, however, and always near the surface of her writing is a constructive force at work - a powerful impulse towards health. It was an urge, through writing, to bring order and continuity out of chaos. Putting things into words and giving them deliberate expression had the effect of restoring reality to much that might otherwise have remained insubstantial. This early chronicle represents the beginning of the future Virginia Woolf's apprenticeship as a novelist. These pages show that rare instance when a writer of great importance leaves behind not only the actual documents of an apprenticeship, but also a biographical record of that momentous period as well. In Woolf's words, 'Here is a volume of fairly acute life (the first really lived year of my life).'

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