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The revelation of Huxley's world, how it is created and how it functions leads to powerful messages about the purpose of humanity, the pursuit of happiness, the role of suffering and the need for individual human dignity and freedom.

It also illustrates Huxley's theory that the masses are more easily mollified by the power of pleasure than the threat of force. Huxley wrote, in a letter to George Orwell dated 21 October, 1949 about the differences between "Brave New World" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four": "Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."]]> 3487 3.87 128810 4438 2739281 5.00 8 0 1932 3173555 569908486X 0 <![CDATA[Двери восприятия. Рай и Ад (Палата № 6)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207586753m/3173555.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207586753s/3173555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3173555._ 5.00 2 3487 3.87 128810 4438 2739281 5.00 8 0 2265616 4.63 218 8 1969 6728707 5830100088 0 <![CDATA[Kontrapunkt]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6728707-kontrapunkt 0.0 0 Point Counter Point no doubt shocked its readers with frank depictions of infidelity, sexuality & the highbrow high jinks of Aldous Huxley's arty characters. What's truly remarkable, however, is how his novel continues to shock today. True, we may hardly lift an eyebrow at poor Marjorie Carling leaving her husband to live in sin with--& get pregnant by--her lover Walter Bidlake. The sexual exploits of Lady Edward Tantamount or her daughter, Lucy, seem quite in keeping with the behavior expected of such exalted persons by readers inured to the exploits of the British Royals. If the varieties of sexual experience on display in Huxley's novel seem tame by current standards, his clear-eyed dissection of the motives behind them are thrillingly fresh--& his commentaries on everything from politics to ecology sometimes chillingly prescient. Take for example, the wisdom of amateur biologist Lord Edward Tantamount on the subject of non-renewable resources:
"No doubt," he said, "you think you can make good the loss with phosphate rocks. But what'll you do when the deposits are exhausted?" He poked Everard in the shirt front. "What then? Only two hundred years & they'll be finished. You think we're being progressive because we're living on our capital Phosphates, coal, petroleum, nitre--squander them all. That's your policy. And meanwhile you go round trying to make our flesh creep with talk about revolutions."
When his interlocutor, the fascist politician Everard Webley, demands to know whether Lord Edward wants a revolution, Tantamount first asks whether such an event would reduce the population & check production & then, when assured it would, he responds, "'Then certainly I want a revolution.' The Old Man thought in terms of geology & was not afraid of logical conclusions."
Huxley fills his novel with a multitude of characters, from the obscenely wealthy Tantamounts to the priapic painter John Bidlake, his children Walter & Elinor, & their respective mates, Marjorie Carling & Philip Quarles. There is also the venomous Maurice Spandrell, the revolutionary Illidge, the unctuous Burlap, & the happily married (a rarity in this novel) Mark & Mary Rampion, who are the book's moral center--theirs is the one relationship that combines reason & passion in proper measure. They are purportedly in part based on well-known figures of the time such as D.H. Lawrence & Katherine Mansfield. Love, loss, infidelity & murder are the subjects under discussion as Huxley juxtaposes one point of view against its opposite, mixing in a healthy dollop of science, politics, religion & art, as well.
I>Point Counter Point</I> is an intelligent novel about the intellectual world, one that bears up gracefully under the test of time.--Alix Wilber]]> 3487 3.87 128810 4438 2739281 5.00 8 0 1947 6728705 5830100045 9785830100045 0 <![CDATA[Шутовской хоровод]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6728705 0.0 0 3487 3.87 128810 4438 2739281 5.00 8 0 1923 6728709 5273000653 9785273000650 0 <![CDATA[Луденские бесы]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6728709 0.0 0 3487 3.87 128810 4438 2739281 5.00 8 0 1952 6378894 5239003300 9785239003305 0 <![CDATA[Свидетели обвинения]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6378894 0.0 0
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С. Белов Предисловие Предисловие c. 3-8
Морис Леблан Красный шарф
(переводчик: А. Строев) Рассказ c. 9-25
Олдос Леонард Хаксли Улыбка Джоконды
(переводчик: Наталия Волжина) Рассказ c. 26-52
Эдогава Рампо Чудовище во мраке
(переводчик: Тамара Редько) Повесть c. 53-118
Дэшил Хэммет Мальтийский сокол
(переводчик: Юрий Здоровов) Повесть c. 119-292
Фридрих Глаузер Крок и Ко
(переводчик: А. Славинская) Повесть c. 293-367
Грэм Грин Ведомство страха
(переводчик: Елена Голышева) Повесть c. 368-537
Хорхе Луис Борхес Сад расходящихся тропок Повесть c. 538-547
Дороти Ли Сейерс Из предисловия к "Детективной антологии"
(переводчик: С. Белов) Послесловие c. 548-552

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