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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
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Birth name: Aldous Leonard Huxley
Date of birth: July 26 1894(1894-07-26)[1][2]
Place of birth: Godalming, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Date of death: November 22 1963(1963-11-22)[1][2] (69 years)
Place of death: Los Angeles, USA
Citizenship (citizenship): Great Britain
Occupation: prose writer
Language of works: English[3]
Awards:
James Tait Black Literary Award[d]
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Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894, Godalming, Surrey, England, Great Britain — November 22, 1963, Los Angeles, USA) was an English writer, short story writer and philosopher.
The author of the famous dystopian novel "Brave New World".
Huxley was a humanist, pacifist and satirist.
Later, he became interested in spiritual issues: parapsychology and philosophical mysticism[4][5], in particular universalism.
By the end of his life, Huxley was widely recognized as one of the outstanding intellectuals of his time.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times in different years.[6]
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1 Biography 2 Personal life 3 Bibliography 4 Notes 5 References
Biography[edit / edit wiki text]
Both on his father's and mother's sides, Huxley belonged to the British cultural elite, which gave a number of outstanding scientists, writers, and artists.
His father is the writer Leonard Huxley, his paternal grandfather is the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley; on his mother's side, Huxley is the great grandson of the historian and educator Thomas Arnold and the great nephew of the writer Matthew Arnold.
Huxley's brother Julian and half brother Andrew were famous biologists.
Huxley's mother died when Aldous was thirteen years old.
Three years later, he fell ill with eye inflammation, and subsequently his vision deteriorated significantly.
In this regard, he was released from military service during the First World War.
He later described his own experience of correcting vision in the brochure "The Art of Seeing" (The Art of Seeing, 1943).
Huxley wrote his first novel, which was not published, at the age of seventeen.
He studied literature at Balliol College, Oxford.
Already at the age of twenty, Huxley decides to choose writing as a profession.
In his novels, we are talking about the loss of humanity by society in the process of technological progress (the dystopia "Brave New World"), there is also a book "Return to a beautiful new world" (Brave New World Revisited, 1958), written twenty seven years after the first, in which Huxley describes the opposite state of the first book and develops the idea that in fact everything will be much worse and scarier than in the first).
He also touched on pacifist topics.
In 1937, Huxley moved to Los Angeles, California, with his wife Maria, son Matthew and friend Gerald Gerd, hoping that the California climate would benefit his deteriorating eyesight.
It is here that his main creative period begins, for which a more detailed examination of the human essence was a new feature.
Huxley meets Jiddu Krishnamurti in 1938.
Under the influence of the latter, he turns to various teachings of wisdom and engages in mysticism.
The accumulated knowledge can be seen in his subsequent works: "Eternal Philosophy "(The Perennial Philosophy), most clearly in" After Many years " (After Many a Summer...), as well as in the work Time must have a stop.
In 1953, he agrees to participate in an experiment conducted by Humphrey Osmond.
The purpose of this experiment was to study the effect of mescaline on human consciousness.
Subsequently, in correspondence with Osmond, the word "psychedelic" was used for the first time to describe the influence of mescaline.
The essays "The Doors of Perception "and" Heaven and Hell " describe the observations and the course of the experiment, which the author repeated about ten times until his death.
"Doors of Perception" became a cult text for many radical intellectuals of the 1960s and gave the name to the famous rock band The Doors.
At the beginning of 1960, M. Erickson met with Huxley for a long time at his home in Los Angeles, for a joint psychological study of various states of consciousness. (Erickson M. Strategy of psychotherapy = Strategy of the Psychotherapy)
The effect of the action of psychotropic substances affects not only his work.
So, in his last novel "Island" (Island), he described a utopia that was diametrically opposed to his dystopia "Brave New World" (Brave New World).
Huxley died in 1963 in Los Angeles from laryngeal cancer.
Before his death, he asked for an intramuscular injection of LSD 100 mcg.
Despite the warnings of doctors, his wife complied with his request, which allowed him to die peacefully, avoiding convulsions and suffocation.
She admitted this in an interview that she gave in 1986 to the British television company BBC as part of the documentary project LSD: The Beyond Within[7].
Shortly before his death, almost all of Huxley's manuscripts were burned in a fire in his own house.
The Buddhist Lama Ole Nydahl began, although he did not finish, his doctoral dissertation on the book "Doors of Perception"by Aldous Huxley.[8]
Personal life[edit / edit wiki text]
Huxley married the Belgian Maria Nees (September 10, 1899 February 12, 1955) in 1919.
In 1920, their son Matthew was born, who became a famous epidemiologist[9].
In 1955, Maria died of breast cancer[10].
In 1956, Huxley married the writer Laura Archer (1911-2007).
Despite his interest in mysticism, Huxley considered himself an agnostic[11].
Most of Huxley's surviving manuscripts are located at the University of California, Los Angeles[12].
Some manuscripts are in the library of Stanford University[13].
Bibliography[edit / edit wiki text]
Huxley in 1925
"Yellow Chrome", Crome Yellow — 1921 "Buffoon's Dance", Antic Hay — 1923 "These Barren Leaves" Those Barren Leaves — 1925 "Counterpoint", Point Counter Point — 1928 "Oh Brave New World", Brave New World — 1932 "Blind Man in Gaza", Eyeless in Gaza — 1936 "After Many Years", After Many a Summer Dies the Swan — 1939 "How to Correct Vision", The Art of Seeing — 1943 "Time must stop", Time Must Have a Stop — 1945 "Eternal Philosophy", The Perennial Philosophy — 1945 "Monkey and Essence", Ape and Essence — 1948 "Loudun demons", The Devils of Loudun — 1952 "Doors of Perception", The Doors of Perception — 1954 "Genius and Goddess", The Genius and the Goddess — 1955 "Heaven and Hell", Heaven and Hell — 1956 "Return to the brave new world", Brave New World Revisited — 1958 "Island", Island — 1962
Short stories and short stories
Hubert and Minnie Young Archimedes Choudron Healing rest Claxtons After fireworks And there has been no end to their happiness since then Eupomp has given greatness to the art of painting with numbers Kinfiya Bookstore Lally's death Sir Hercules Gioconda's smile A banquet in honor of Tillotson Green tunnels A nun for breakfast "A Little Mexican Girl" A jar of blush Portrait Saturday evening Monocle The Sorceress Godmother
Notes[edit / edit wiki text]
↑ Go to: 1 2 data.bnf.fr: open data platform 2011.
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↑ Go to: 1 2 German National Library, Berlin State Library, Bavarian State Library, etc. Record #118555081 / / General regulatory Control — 2012-2016.
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↑ Go to: 1 2 http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11908111q
↑ Thody Philipe.
Huxley: A Biographical Introduction.
— Scribner, 1973.
— ISBN 978-0-289-70188-1.
↑ David K. Dunaway.
Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History.
— Rowman Altamira, 1995.
— P. 90. — ISBN 978-0-7619-9065-9.
↑ Nomination Database ↑ LSD: The Beyond Within.
PaddyCk's Movie Reviews (February 12, 2007).
Checked on May 19, 2010.
Archived from the original source on August 22, 2011.
↑ Scherer, Burkhard.
"Interpreting the Diamond Way: Contemporary Convert Buddhism in Transition".
Journal of Global Buddhism (24 September 2010).
↑ Patricia Sullivan.
Author, NIMH Epidemiologist Matthew Huxley Dies at 84 (eng.).
Washington Post (17 February 2005).
Accessed 6 December 2013.
Maria Maria Nijs (Nys) (1898-1955) (English).
geni.com (October 13, 2013).
Checked on February 17, 2005.
↑ Aldous Huxley / Harold Bloom (ed.).
— Infobase Publishing, 2003.
— P. 27. — ISBN 978-0-7910-7040-6.
↑ Finding Aid for the Aldous and Laura Huxley papers, 1925-2007.
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Verified on October 4, 2012.
↑ Guide to the Aldous Huxley Collection, 1922—1934.
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Verified on October 4, 2012.
Links[edit / edit wiki text]
Huxley, Aldous Leonard in Wikicitatnik?
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An English language website dedicated to the writer's activities Biography and bibliography on fantlab.ru Huxley, Aldous in the library of Maxim Moshkov Golovacheva I. V.
The psychedelic revolution in a Single Consciousness: a chronicle of events Golovacheva I. V. Science and Literature: The Archaeology of Scientific knowledge by Aldous Huxley Rabinovich, V. S. Aldous Huxley: The Evolution of Creativity.
Yekaterinburg, 1999.
Redina, O. N.
"The Novel of Ideas" by Aldous Huxley.
Moscow, 1999.
Shadursky, Maxim.
Literary utopia from More to Huxley: problems of genre poetics and the semiosphere.
Finding the island.
Moscow, 2007.
Shadurski, Maxim.
Utopia as a model of the world: the boundaries and frontiers of a literary phenomenon.
Siedlce: IKR[i]BL, 2016.
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