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Writer from England
It has superhuman foresight over the contradictions in human life
He is known for his novels and numerous prose works
Published short stories, travelogues, film stories and screenplays
Acts as an interrogator of social morality, standards and ideals
Is a humanist
His Brave New World made him famous
Ados Huxley
Biography
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer.
Belonged to the famous Huxley family. His grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a biologist and proponent of evolution. He studied at Eton College as a teenager and graduated from Bailiol College, Oxford University. He lived in the United States for the rest of his life and moved to Los Angeles in 1937, where he lived until his death in 1963. I wanted to be a doctor, but because of my visual impairment, I changed my original intentions and engaged in literature. As the son of a biologist, he received a good education from an early age. He has superhuman foresight over the contradictions in human life. Although an eye disease almost left him with complete loss of vision, after learning Braille, he gradually began to write, writing many popular novels and becoming a star figure in the 20th century.
He is best known for his novels and numerous prose works, and has published short stories, travelogues, film stories, and screenplays. Through his novels and essays, Huxley acted as an interrogator of social morality, standards, and ideals, and sometimes as a critic. Huxley was a humanist, but in his later years he was also interested in psychic topics such as parapsychology and philosophy and mysticism. In the final stages of his life, Huxley was considered a leader of modern thought in some academic circles, ranking among the most prominent intellectuals of his time.
His brave new world, written in 1932, made him famous. Notable works include Chrome Yellow (1921), Funny Round Dance for Men and Women (1923), Bare Leaves (1925), Point-to-Point (1923), Blind Eyes in Kaza (1936), After a Few Summers (1939), Time Must Stand Still (1944), Genius and Goddess (1955), Island (1962), etc.
Personal life
He completed his first novel (unpublished) at the age of 17 and began serious writing after the age of 20. His original novels were social satires, beginning with Krom Yello (1921).
During World War I, Huxley spent most of his time at Mrs. Morrell's Garsington estate. Here he met several members of the Bloomsbury Faction, including Bertrand Russell and Clive Bell. In Krom Yello, he depicts life in Garsington.
In 1919, he married Maria Niss, a Belgian woman he met in Garsington, and had a son.
In the 1920s, the family lived in Italy for a while, and Huxley also used it to visit his friend David Herbert Lawrence.
After Lawrence's death in 1930, he edited Lawrence's letters. During this time, his work included novels that reflected the dehumanizing side of technological development, the most famous of which was Brave New World, as well as pacifist works such as The Blind Man in Gaza. In Brave New World, Huxley depicts a society based on the principles of mass production and Pavlovian conditioning. He was deeply influenced by Matthias Alexander and wrote him into The Blind Man of Gaza.
Huxley began writing and editing nonfiction works on pacifism during this period, including Ends and Means, the Pacifist Encyclopedia, and Pacifism and Philosophy, and was an active member of the Alliance of Commitments to Peace.
In 1937, Huxley moved to Hollywood with his wife Maria, son Matthew, and friend Gerald Hurd. He lived primarily in southern California until his death, but also lived for a time in Taos, New Mexico, and wrote Ends and Means (published in 1937). This work shows that in modern society, people want to live in a world of "freedom, peace, justice, and love like brothers", but there is no agreement on how to achieve it.
Huld introduced Huxley to Vedanta, meditation, and vegetarianism based on the principle of non-harm. In 1938 Huxley became friends with Gedhu Krishnamurti.
In 1919, he married Maria Niss (10 September 1899 – 12 February 1955), a Belgian woman he met in Garcinton, and had a son, Matthew Huxley (19 April 1920 – 10 February 2005). Matthew later became a writer, anthropologist, and epidemiologist.
Niss died of breast cancer in 1955.
In 1956 he married the writer Laura Acella. She created Huxley's biography, The Moments Of Time Passing.
Huxley was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 1960. In the years that followed, Huxley, who was in diminutive health, wrote the utopian novel The Island.
On his deathbed, Huxley was speechless, and he asked his wife Laura by handwriting for "lygotyldiethylamine, 100 mg, intramuscular injection." According to Laura's account in The Moments That Passed, she obeyed, completing one injection at 11:45 a.m. and another hours later.
He died at the age of 69 at 5:20 p.m. on November 22, 1963, hours after Kennedy's assassination. His ashes were placed in a family grave at Compton Watts Cemetery in Surrey, England.
Individual works
1921 Crome Yellow
1923 Antic Hay
1925 Those Barren Leaves
1928 Point Counter Point
1932 Brave New World
1936 Eyeless in Gaza
1939 After Many a Summer
1944 Time Must Have a Stop
1948 Ape and Essence
1955 The Genius and the Goddess
1962 Island
1920 Limbo
1922 Mortal Coils
1924 Little Mexican (US title: Young Archimedes)
1926 Two or Three Graces
1930 Brief Candles
1944 Collected Short Stories
Jacob's Hands: A Fable (co-written with Christopher Isherwood; discovered 1997)
1916 Oxford Poetry (magazine editor)
1916 The Burning Wheel
1917 Jonah
1918 The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
1920 Leda
1925 Selected Poems
1929 Arabia Infelix and Other Poems
1931 The Cicadas and Other Poems
1971 Collected Poems
1923 On the Margin
1925 Along the Road
1926 Essays New and Old
1927 Proper Studies
1929 Do What You Will
1930 Vulgarity in Literature
1931 Music at Night
1932 Texts and Pretexts
1936 The Olive Tree and other essays
1937 Ends and Means
1940 Words and their Meanings
1942 The Art of Seeing
1945 The Perennial Philosophy
1946 Science, Liberty and Peace
1950 Themes and Variations
1954 The Doors of Perception
1956 Heaven and Hell
1956 Adonis and the Alphabet (US title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow)
1958 Collected Essays
1958 Brave New World Revisited
1960 On Art and Artists
1963 Literature and Science
1977 Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931–63
1977 The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959
Brave New World
Ape and Essence
1940 Pride and Prejudice (collaboration)
1943 Madame Curie (collaboration)
1944 Jane Eyre (collaboration with John Houseman)
1947 A Woman's Vengeance
1950 Prelude to Fame
1951 Original screenplay (rejected) for Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland
1971 Eyeless in Gaza (BBC mini-series in collaboration with Robin Chapman)
1925 Along The Road: Notes and essays of a tourist
1926 Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey
1934 Beyond the Mexique Bay: A Traveller's Journey
1967 The Crows of Pearblossom
1924 The Discovery (adapted from Francis Sheridan)
1931 The World of Light
1948 Mortal Coils – A Play (stage version of The Gioconda Smile)
1958 The Genius and the Goddess (stage version, co-written with Betty Wendel)
1967 The Ambassador of Captripedia
2000 Now More Than Ever (Lost play discovered by the Department of English Literature, University of Münster, Germany)
1941 "Distractions" "Distractions II" "Action and Contemplation" "An Appreciation" "The Yellow Mustard" "Lines" "Some Reflections of the Lord's Prayer"
1942 "Reflections of the Lord's Prayer" "Reflections of the Lord's Prayer II" "Words and Reality" "Readings in Mysticism" "Man and Reality" "The Magical and the Spiritual"
1943 "Religion and Time" "Idolatry" "Religion and Temperament" "A Note on the Bhagavatam" "Seven Meditations"
1944 "On a Sentence From Shakespeare" "The Minimum Working Hypothesis" "From a Notebook" "The Philosophy of the Saints"
1945 "That Art Thou" "That Art Thou II" "The Nature of the Ground" "The Nature of the Ground II" "God in the World"
1946 "Origins and Consequences of Some Contemporary Thought-Patterns" "The Sixth Patriarch" "Some Reflections on Time"
1947 "Reflections on Progress" "Further Reflections on Progress" "William Law" "Notes on Zen"
1948 "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" "A Note on Gandhi"
1949 "Art and Religion
1950 "Foreword to an Essay on the Indian Philosophy of Peace"
1952 "A Note on Enlightenment" "Substitutes for Liberation"
1954 "The Desert" "A Note on Patanjali"
1955 "Who Are We?"
1956 "Foreword to the Supreme Doctrine" "Knowledge and Understanding"
1957 "The "Inanimate" is Alive"
1960 "Symbol and Immediate Experience"
1955 Knowledge and Understanding
1955 Who Are We?
1936 Pacifism and Philosophy
1937 An Encyclopedia of Pacifism (editor)
1941 Grey Eminence
1953 The Devils of Loudun
1962 The Politics of Ecology
2007 Selected Letters
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