Who Is Aldous Huxley
Huxley's most popular novels were published during his youth in Engliand. In midlife, Huxley moved from England to the US. There he became the champion of a variety of cutting edge innovative ideas took LSD and gave birth to the counterculture.
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Aldous Huxley at a Glance
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 ? 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts.
Aldous Huxley was a humanist and pacifist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics.
By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank, and highly regarded as one of the most prominent explorers of Visual communication and sight-related theories as well.
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Huxley in Hollywood (a biography) by David King Dunaway
Like many of his contemporaries, English novelist Aldous Huxley sought the gold to be mined in the Hollywood studios; however, only four of his film scripts made it to the screen. A richer mine came from his association with people such as Hearst, Thomas Mann, Chaplin, and Garbo; the "Hollywood" novels After Many a Summer Dies the Swan and Ape and Essence were the result. Dunaway alternates discussions of Huxley's life and beliefs with large doses of tittle-tattle; he seems especially fascinated with Hollywood's lesbian underground. Few new insights are offered here. Huxley's film work is amply covered in Virginia Clark's Aldous Huxley and Film (Scarecrow, 1987), and his life is the subject of several biographies. Aldous Huxley on Amazon
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.
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Island (a novel) by Aldous Huxley
While Island is a work of fiction, it is the vehicle Huxley used to communicate his ideas about how people in a good society would interact with each other and their environment. These web pages are not offering a literary critique of the novel, analyzing any symbolism, or even summarizing the novel. The plot is a wonderful story in its own right, and it's best to read the book, not a synopsis, to fully enjoy it. The goal here is to simply present Huxley's underlying ideas and philosophies upon which the novel is built.
Just as many science-oriented movies start off with a child being taught something, or a news program, or some other educational device which is really for the benefit of the viewer, Huxley has his own "news reel" in Island so that the setting and events in the story are understood in context. The people of Pala (which is the island the title refers to) live their lives based on ideas representing the best that Eastern and Western philosophies have to offer. Neither philosophy is quite enough on its own, or maybe is too much, to live a full, balanced life. And it so happens that Pala's philosophies result from the hard work and combined ideas of two founding fathers, one a Buddhist and one an analytical medical doctor (from Thoughts on Aldous Huxley by Mike Markowski).
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