Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Leonard Huxley (Godalming, Anglaterra, 26 de juliol de 1894 – Los Angeles, 22 de novembre de 1963) escriptor anglès que va emigrar als Estats Units. Una de les seves obres de major renom fou i és Brave New World (Un món perfecte).

Membre d'una reconeguda família d'intel·lectuals Huxley, conegut per les seves novel·les i el seu gran ventall de assajos, Huxley va publicar, també, relats curts, poesia, llibres de viatge i històries per a pel·lícules i guions. Mitjançant les seves novel·les i assajos, Huxley va exercir com crític dels rols socials, les normes i els ideals. Es va interessar, així mateix, pels temes espirituals, com la parapsicologia i la filosofia mística, sobre les quals va escriure diversos llibres.

[edita] Obra

Novel·les

• Crome Yellow (1921)
• Antic Hay (1923)
• Those Barren Leaves (1925)
• Point Counter Point (1928)
• Un món perfecte (Brave New World) (1932)
• Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
• After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (1939)
• Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
• Ape and Essence (1948)
• The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
• Island (1962)

Relats curts

• Limbo (1920)
• Mortal Coils (1922)
• Little Mexican (U.S. - Young Archimedes) (1924)
• Two or Three Graces (1926)
• Brief Candles (1930)
• Jacob's Hands: A Fable (Late 1930s, rediscovered 1997) co-written with Christopher Isherwood
• Collected Short Stories (1957)

Poesia

• The Burning Wheel (1916)
• Jonah (1917)
• The Defeat of Youth (1918)
• Leda (1920)
• Arabia Infelix (1929)
• The Cicadas (1931)
• First Philosopher's Song

Quaderns de viatge

• Along The Road (1925)
• Jesting Pilate (1926) The author recounts his experiences travelling through six countries, offering his observations on their people, cultures and customs.
• Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)

Drames

• Now More Than Ever (University of Texas, Austin, 1997)
• The Ambassador of Captripedia (1967)
• The Genius and the Goddess (stage version, co-written with Betty Wendel, 1958)
• Mortal Coils - A Play (stage version of The Gioconda Smile, 1948)
• The World of Light (1931)
• The Discovery (adapted from Francis Sheridan, 1924)

Col·leccions d'assajos.

• On the Margin (1923)
• Along the Road (1925)
• Essays New and Old (1926)
• Proper Studies (1927)
• Do What You Will (1929)
• Vulgarity in Literature (1930)
• Music at Night (1931)
• Texts and Pretexts (1932)
• The Olive Tree (1936)
• Words and their Meanings (1940)
• The Art of Seeing (1942)
• The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
• Science, Liberty and Peace (1946)
• Themes and Variations (1950)
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1952)
• The Doors of Perception (1954)
• Heaven and Hell (1956)
• Adonis and the Alphabet (1956)
• Collected Essays (1958)
• Brave New World Revisited (1958)
• Literature and Science (1963)

Articles escrits per a Vedanta and the West (una publicació la “Vedanta Society of Southern California” des del 1938 fins al 1970)

• Distractions (1941)
• Distractions II (1941)
• Action and Contemplation (1941)
• An Appreciation (1941)
• The Yellow Mustard (1941)
• Lines (1941)
• Some Replections of the Lord's Prayer (1941)
• Reflections of the Lord's Prayer (1942)
• Reflections of the Lord's Prayer II (1942)
• Words and Reality (1942)
• Readings in Mysticism (1942)
• Man and Reality (1942)
• The Magical and the Spiritual (1942)
• Religion and Time (1943)
• Idolatry (1943)
• Religion and Temperment (1943)
• A Note on the Bhagavatam (1943)
• Seven Meditations (1943)
• On a Sentence From Shakespeare (1944)
• The Minimum Working Hypothesis (1944)
• From a Notebook (1944)
• The Philosophy of the Saints (1944)
• That Art Thou (1945)
• That Art Thou II (1945)
• The Nature of the Ground (1945)
• The Nature of the Ground II (1945)
• God In the World (1945)
• Origins and Consequences of Some Contemporary Thought-Patterns (1946)
• The Sixth Patriarch (1946)
• Some Reflections on Time (1946)
• Reflections on Progress (1947)
• Further Reflections on Progress (1947)
• William Law (1947)
• Notes on Zen (1947)
• Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread (1948)
• A Note on Gandhi (1948)
• Art and Religion (1949)
• Foreword to an Essay on the Indian Philosophy of Peace (1950)
• A Note on Enlightenment (1952)
• Substitutes for Liberation (1952)
• The Desert (1954)
• A Note on Patanjali (1954)
• Who Are We? (1955)
• Foreword to the Supreme Doctrine (1956)
• Knowledge and Understanding (1956)
• The "Inanimate" is Alive (1957)
• Symbol and Immediate Experience (1960)

Filosofia.

• Ends and Means (1937)
• The Perennial Philosophy (1944) (ISBN 0-06-057058-X)

Biografies i no ficció.

• The Devils of Loudun (1953) (ISBN 0-7867-0368-7)
• Grey Eminence (1941) (ISBN 0-7011-0802-9)
• Selected Letters (2007) (ISBN 1-56663-629-9)

Literatura infantil.

• The Crows of Pearblossom (1967)
• The Travails and Tribulations of Geoffrey Peacock (1967)

Col·leccions

• Texts and Pretexts (1933)
• Collected Short Stories (1957)
• Collected Essays (1958)
• Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1977)
• The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 (1977)

[edita] Enllaços externs

• Pàgina sobre Aldous Huxley (castellà)