Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State of genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to make a utopian society that goes challenged only by a single outsider.
《美丽新世界》这部惊世之作出版于1932年,作者阿道司·赫胥黎以传奇性的远见和充满讽刺意味的笔触,塑造了一个物质生活丰富、科技高度发达的“美丽的新世界”。在遥远的未来,人们在基因设计与药物麻醉下,失去了个人情感、失去了思考的能力、失去了爱情,只是消极服从于一种统治秩序。去保留区度假的伯纳德和列宁娜,偶遇了“野人”约翰和他的母亲琳达,并将他们带回了文明社会。琳达很快死于服用过量的索麻,约翰也意识到“文明社会”并非是美好的乌托邦,开始渴望回归保留区……
这部强有力的后设小说作品,令无数读者为之着迷也为之惊恐。时至今日,它所阐述的对文明与科技发展的思考,依旧发人深省。
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