Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1936-1938 (4) (Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley, Volume IV) - Hardcover

Huxley, Aldous

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 156663394X ISBN 13: 9781566633949

Verlag: Ivan R. Dee, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; ill.; 25 cm. Notes; Spine title: Aldous Huxley complete essays. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Summary; These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the most productive period of Huxley's career. Volume I begins with his essays for Gilbert Murray's Athenaeum and his music essays for the New Westminster Gazette. Volume II continues through the 1920s and includes his controversial essays on India and the empire in "Jesting Pilate." The essays of both volumes range from nuanced assessments of art and architecture to political analyses, history, science, religion, and art, and a newly discovered series on music. Wide-ranging, allusive, and witty, they are informed by the probing skepticism of a highly educated and ironically incisive member of the English upper middle class. Huxley's fascination with the codes and conventions of European culture, his growing apprehensions about the menacing collapse of the European political order, and his awareness of the impact of science and technology on the post-Versailles world of England, France, Germany, and the United States form the basis for his critique. His subjects overlap with the satirical novels he wrote during the period between the wars, culminating in Point Counter Point and Brave New World. At their best, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. Subjects; Huxley, Aldous 1894-1963. Authors, English - 20th century. Dates covered: 1920-1925. Essays, journals, letters & other prose works. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

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Críticas:

Perusing Volume One, I was struck by the sensitivity and the unerring perception in these unknown reviews, ultimately my most enjoyable reading of the year. -- Robert Craft, conductor and writer on music * Times Literary Supplement, (Books Of The Year, Dec.) * An important and admirable publishing event. * Atlantic Monthly * The editors have done their job with commendable thoroughness. -- P.N. Furbank * Times Literary Supplement * Huxley's political writing is often deliberately perverse. -- Leo Carey * The New Yorker * Much to enjoy in these volumes...they are important as a document and a window on to the stage in the evolution of his mind. * Economist * He writes with an easy assurance and a command of classical and modern cross-references. -- Christopher Hitchens * Los Angeles Times *

Reseña del editor:

In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s as the world moved toward a second global war. Many of his essays reflect his continuing interest in the conventions of popular culture as well as the philosophy of science and history, particularly as they inform developments in art and politics.

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• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 156663394X
• ISBN 13: 9781566633949
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 466
• Herausgeber: Baker Robert S., Sexton James