Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 at Godalming, in Surrey in England and died in Los Angeles in the 1963.
The new world and return to the new world are two of his novels, two masterpieces defined as science fiction. The first published in the 1932, the second in the '58, describe a very particular world. Anyone who has read Fareneit 451 and 1984 (by Bradbury and Orwell) can understand what I mean.
Huxley describes a world in which society does everything to promote its harmonious development and for this purpose all the possibilities offered by science are put into place, from assisted test-tube reproduction to Pavlov conditioning, through the use of a drug, the soma, to control the will of living beings (to call them men would be too much).
A society rigidly divided into castes in which everything is predetermined and free will seems to have no space. The same words "father", "mother", "childbirth", are considered outlaws or in any case amoral in a world where everything is allowed provided that there are no differences between the individuals of the same caste. All the same means security!
But as the popular wisdom teaches, not all the donuts come with the hole, therefore, from time to time the fate makes that some of these beings born in test tube and conditioned to act according to determined models, deviate from the rule and ...
The rest is to be read.
An interesting and compelling book, sometimes not too far from a possible chilling alternative reality!
Enjoy the reading...
Alessandro Rugolo
