Hardcover, 237 pages
Estonian language
Published Nov. 8, 2008 by Tänapäev.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) romaan "Hea uus ilm" on XX sajandi ühe fantaasiarikkaima kirjaniku tulevikunägemus totalitaarsest olmeparadiisist. Romaani sündmustik leiab aset utoopilises riigis, kus eesmärgiks on inimeste õnn. Õnne säilitamise huvides loobutakse kõigest, mis sünnitaks sügavamaid mõtteid või tundeid ning ohustaks seeläbi riigi stabiilsust ning seega samastub õnnelik olemine selles riigis vabaduse täieliku puudumisega.
Read in and for English class in school. Would likely not have read it on an other occasion, although the themes and things discussed are thought provoking, I didn't really enjoy the book.
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.
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.
