Schöne neue Welt

Ein Roman der Zukunft

Audiobook

German language

Published Sept. 29, 2013 by Der Hörverlag.

ASIN:
B00FH3KNU2
3 stars (14 reviews)

Eine Welt ohne Gewalt? In ferner Zukunft ist die ideale Gesellschaft geformt: Künstlich reproduzierte, genmanipulierte Menschen sind mit Hilfe von Gehirnwäsche und Drogen glückliche Konsumenten. Nur der Alpha Bernard Marx scheint von einer unbestimmten Sehnsucht nach Freiheit getrieben zu sein. Ein Besuch in einem der wenigen verbliebenen Reservate, in denen noch das alte, unperfekte Leben geführt wird, könnte ihn von seinem Unbehagen heilen - oder etwa nicht?

116 editions

reviewed Admirável Mundo Novo by Aldous Huxley (Folha Grandes Nomes da Literatura, #3)

Sofri de CED, "Criei Expectativas Demais"

3 stars

Esse livro é um clássico do gênero ficção científica distópica, e já em 1932 já previa algumas desgraças em nome do progresso científico. Aliás, se tem uma coisa em que o livro acerta, é na crítica implícita (ou até mesmo explícita) sobre ciência e o progresso obstinado. O dilema moral principal do livro, escrito mesmo antes da Segunda Guerra ou da ameaça de caos nuclear da Guerra Fria, é: ser livre e sofrer, mas poder apreciar a arte e a liberdade e tudo o que implica, ou ser condicionado, manipulado e viver em uma sociedade de castas, mas sem sofrimento e uma vida relativamente digna e feliz (mesmo considerando as castas)?

Na minha opinião, esse dilema moral é realmente interessante e se prova atual mesmo 92 anos após o lançamento do livro. O que eu não gostei foi:

1) A narrativa: achei chata, não me interessou, os personagens não são …

A bit too "on-the-nose"

3 stars

I guess it might be the point of the book, but I couldn't feel that any character was real, everything felt stereotypical; while at the same time that "prediction" of the future does not seem plausible to me.

And I repeat, it might be the point of the book, so, if that is the case, then great job. I just did not enjoy it or gained any interesting insight.

Interessant aber gleichzeitig sehr langweilig

2 stars

Die gesamte Dystopie ist sehr interessant und erschreckend, verliert sich aber leider dermaßen in detailierten, montonen Beschreibungen das ich aus langeweile immer wieder abschweifte und ganze Kapitel zum Teil noch einmal anhören musste. Leider ändert auch die zugrunde liegende Story daran nichts, da diese für mich so wirkt als habe Huxley sie im nachhinein eingearbeitet, um seinen Ideen irgendwie einen roten Faden zu verpassen, damit aus seinem Buch kein philosphisches Sachbuch sondern ein Roman wird.

reviewed Le meilleur des mondes by Aldous Huxley (Le Livre de poche, 346-347)

Une marmite de réflexions sociétales

4 stars

Je vous propose de faire un bon de 600 ans dans le temps et d'atterrir dans le monde "moderne". Un monde ou la famille n'existe plus, où les bébés naissent dans des éprouvettes, voient leur adn modifié en fonction de leur future caste sociale et où les pensées des enfants sont conditionnés pendant leur sommeil. Ici la sexualité est débridée, la monogamie a disparu et chaque problème est résolu par une dose de Soma (comprimé antidepressif). Dans ce nouveau monde, une réserve de sauvage existe, remplie d'hommes et de femmes qui vivent comme vous et moi et qui, voués à eux-mêmes, meurent de faim.

On rencontre notamment Lénina, une citoyenne parfaite du nouveau monde, mais aussi Bernard, un alpha qui se sent à part et qui se questionne sur la société et Jon, un sauvage qui ressemble aux humains d'aujourd'hui.

L'écriture de ce livre est pointue et ennuyante mais les …

Another Authoritarianism dystopian classic. A difficult read however.

3 stars

Read this immediately afte reading the Orwell classic, 1984. I admit, I struggled reading this book. The method of story telling, with the switching of character perspective was difficult to follow. The idea of the book became far more clearer as the book progressed and became clear especially towards the end.

However the ideas presented in the book and their demonstration was thought provoking.

Review of 'Brave New World' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

There is much to be learned from reading this book and it is easy to forget that it was written early in the last century, not this one. Sadly, the warnings Huxley offers about what society was becoming were largely ignored and we've come to a society that so closely mirrors his "civilization" that it could have been a metaphor about our current state of affairs written by a contemporary author.

It is a very short novel but full of warnings and lessons that are as applicable, or even more so, today as they were in 1930. It is a lesson in mass manipulation by the media and big pharma. It is a lesson in treating people ultimately as mere resource rather than persons. And it is a lesson in extremes, extreme pain v. extreme pleasure and the wrongheadedness in submitting to either.

Subjects

  • Science-Fiction
  • Dystopie