Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonardus Huxley (natus Godalming in vico Surregiae in Anglia die 26 Iulii 1894; mortuus Angelopoli die 22 Novembris 1963) fuit scriptor Anglicus qui humanismum et pacifismum profitebatur. Avus suus Thomas Henricus Huxley, fraterque Andreas Fielding Huxley fuit.
Annis ab 1908 ad 1913 Collegium Etonense, annis ab 1913 ad 1915 Universitatem Oxoniensem frequentabat. Poësis corpus suum primum anno 1916, fabulam anno 1921 scripsit. Deinde operas de philosophia perenni more mysticae scripsit.
Opera
[recensere | fontem recensere]- Mythistoriae
- 1921 : Crome Yellow
- 1923 : Antic Hay
- 1925 : Those Barren Leaves
- 1928 : Point Counter Point
- 1932 : Brave New World
- 1936 : Eyeless in Gaza
- 1939 : After Many a Summer
- 1944 : Time Must Have a Stop
- 1948 : Ape and Essence
- 1952 : The Devils of Loudun
- 1955 : The Genius and the Goddess
- 1962 : Island
- Collectanea fabularum
- 1920 : Limbo
- 1922 : Mortal Coils
- 1924 : Little Mexican and Other Stories
- 1926 : Two or Three Graces and Other Stories
- 1930 : Brief Candles
- 1936 : After the Fireworks: Three Novellas
- 1957 : Collected Short Stories
- Aliae res
- On the Margin (1923)
- Along the Road (1925)
- Essays New and Old (1926)
- Proper Studies (1927)
- Do What You Will (1929)
- Vulgarity in Literature (1930)
- Music at Night (1931)
- Texts and Pretexts (1932)
- The Olive Tree and other essays (1936)
- Ends and Means (1937)
- Words and their Meanings (1940)
- The Art of Seeing (1942)
- The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
- Science, Liberty and Peace (1946)
- Themes and Variations (1950)
- The Doors of Perception (1954)
- Heaven and Hell (1956)
- Adonis and the Alphabet (U.S. title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) (1956)
- Collected Essays (1958)
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- Literature and Science (1963)
- Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931–63 (1977)
- The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 (1977)
Bibliographia
[recensere | fontem recensere]- Bradshaw, David, ed. 1994. The Hidden Huxley: contempt and compassion for the masses 1920-1936. Londinii: Faber.
- Olavus de Carvalho, "Proemium" in: Admirável mundo novo, Paulopoli, 2001, Domus editora Globo, pp. 8-18. [1] ISBN 85-250-3322-7 (Lusitanice)