Brave New World
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final novel, Island (1962), the utopian counterpart. The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World at number 5 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum, writing for The Observer, included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on The Big Read survey by the BBC.
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In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World at number 5 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum, writing for The Observer, included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on The Big Read survey by the BBC.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) est un écrivain, philosophe et visionnaire britannique, célèbre pour son roman *Le meilleur des mondes* (1932), devenu un pilier de la littérature dystopique. Issu d'une famille intellectuelle, il explore dans ses œuvres les dangers du progrès scientifique, du conditionnement social et de la perte de liberté. *Retour au meilleur des mondes* (1958) confirme son statut de penseur majeur du XXe siècle, analysant avec lucidité les dérives de la modernité. Son œuvre, à la fois littéraire et philosophique, continue d'inspirer et de questionner les sociétés contemporaines.
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