Brave New World

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Publicado el 18 de octubre de 2006

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978-0-06-085052-4
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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 …

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Más valioso como premonición que como pieza literaria... según leía solo pensaba que debería estar leyendo a Orwell.. interesante, pero pluma torpe y superficial en la propuesta. Una sociedad fordiana que funciona como contexto pero con un argumento que deja frío y con la promesa de lo que podría haber sido.

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