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A classic in the literature of shocking future civilization criticism, The harsh future vision in "Brave New World" is already in progress! Aldous Huxley's prophetic novel Brave New World is one of the most profound and penetrating explorations of the future in this century. This story, which depicts life in a modern-day Garden of Eden, pictorially depicts a modern civilized society where the concepts of freedom and morality have become worn-out rags, and warns of the dangers inherent in it. We must not forget Huxley's eloquent declaration of humanity, which he criticized with pain and defended with nobility. -「Saturday Review」 Aldous Huxley, who left behind an outstanding modern classic depicting a bleak future world, was a British writer from a prestigious family and was known not only for his extensive knowledge but also for his sharp intellect, elegant writing style, and sometimes cynical sense of humor. His 1932 work, Brave New World, is considered one of the most profound and sharp explorations of the future in this century. Brave New World is a work depicting a future civilized world where science has reached its peak of development, governing and controlling all aspects of society, and even controlling human birth and freedom. It sharply satirizes a future world that has lost its humanity, while also warning and criticizing the arrogance of humans who overstep the bounds of the divine. Also, like George Orwell's '1984', it raises questions about human freedom and morality through shocking predictions of the future. For those of us who already live in a world where the prelude to the future constructed by humans in Brave New World is underway, it is of great interest to see how Huxley's satirical yet ruthless vision of the future will become a reality in the future. Huxley's chilling vision of the future is no longer fantasy. This is a work that deals with the crisis that humanity faces, using human subjects as its subject matter. In Brave New World, the tragic process of a totalitarian state destroying humanity is vividly revealed, the paradox that utopia is doomed to destruction is highlighted, and the principle of inverse proportionality between the development of civilization and the decline of humanity is presented. Now, the nightmare that Huxley set up in Brave New World is rushing towards us at a rapid pace. With the development of modern scientific civilization, we are gradually losing our individuality and personality. Where is the world headed? |
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Header _008
Chapter 1_030
Chapter 2_052
Chapter 3_067
Chapter 4_106
Chapter 5_126
Chapter 6_146
Chapter 7_174
Chapter 8_196
Chapter 9_221
Chapter 10_229
Chapter 11_238
Chapter 12_265
Chapter 13_285
Chapter 14_303
Chapter 15_317
Chapter 16_329
Chapter 17_348
Chapter 18_364
Translator's Note: A Novel That Predicts the Present _390
Chapter 1_030
Chapter 2_052
Chapter 3_067
Chapter 4_106
Chapter 5_126
Chapter 6_146
Chapter 7_174
Chapter 8_196
Chapter 9_221
Chapter 10_229
Chapter 11_238
Chapter 12_265
Chapter 13_285
Chapter 14_303
Chapter 15_317
Chapter 16_329
Chapter 17_348
Chapter 18_364
Translator's Note: A Novel That Predicts the Present _390
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One egg, one fetus, one adult—that's normal.
But the Bokanovsky egg germinates, develops, and divides.
From 8 to 96 buds develop, each bud becoming a fully formed embryo, and each embryo becoming a fully mature adult.
Before, only one person could grow, but now it creates 96 humans.
That's progress.
--- p.34
“Then, at last, the child’s mind becomes one with these suggestions, and the sum total of the suggestions becomes the child’s reason.
Moreover, the adult's reason is also subject to these suggestions throughout his life.
The reason that judges, desires, and decides is made up of these very suggestions.
But all these hints are hints we are suggesting!” the director shouted in triumph.
"It means that these are hints prepared by the state." --- p.65~66
The eggs that underwent Bokanovsky treatment germinated and split to form numerous embryos.
In the social function room, escalators rumbled down to the basement, where, in the crimson darkness, a fetus on its peritoneum sweltered under the stinging heat, fed surrogate blood and hormones, and grew.
On the other hand, fetuses injected with the toxin became weakened and developed into epsilons.
The shelves, humming and rattling softly, crawled imperceptibly through weeks of endlessly repeated developmental stages into the embryo maturation chamber, where the babies, fresh from their bottles, let out their first cries of terror and astonishment.
--- p.229~230
“Are you happy living as slaves?” the savage was saying as they entered the hospital.
His face was flushed and his eyes sparkled with passion and anger.
“Do you like living like babies? Yes, babies.
“While crying and vomiting,” the savage added, furious at their bestial stupidity, and hurling insults at those he had come to rescue.
His insulting words bounced off their hardened stupidity, like turtle shells, and they stared at him with blank, dull eyes, an expression of dull, spiteful discontent.
“Yes, while I was at it!” he practically shouted.
Feelings of sadness, regret, pity, and duty were absorbed into a powerful and overwhelming hatred for the subhuman monsters who gathered around him.
"Don't you want to be free and human? Don't you even understand what humanity and freedom are?" --- p.323
“The world is now stable.
People are happy, they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get.
They are happy because they all live well, are safe, never get sick, have no fear of death, and know nothing about aging or lust.
They are not bothered by their mother or father, have no strong feelings for their wife, children, or lover, and are virtually forbidden to do anything other than what they have been taught to do.
And if anything goes wrong, Soma is waiting.
You threw it out the window in the name of freedom, Mr. Savage.
“Freedom!” he laughed.
"To expect Deltas to understand freedom! And now to expect them to understand Othello! How naive of a young man!"
But the Bokanovsky egg germinates, develops, and divides.
From 8 to 96 buds develop, each bud becoming a fully formed embryo, and each embryo becoming a fully mature adult.
Before, only one person could grow, but now it creates 96 humans.
That's progress.
--- p.34
“Then, at last, the child’s mind becomes one with these suggestions, and the sum total of the suggestions becomes the child’s reason.
Moreover, the adult's reason is also subject to these suggestions throughout his life.
The reason that judges, desires, and decides is made up of these very suggestions.
But all these hints are hints we are suggesting!” the director shouted in triumph.
"It means that these are hints prepared by the state." --- p.65~66
The eggs that underwent Bokanovsky treatment germinated and split to form numerous embryos.
In the social function room, escalators rumbled down to the basement, where, in the crimson darkness, a fetus on its peritoneum sweltered under the stinging heat, fed surrogate blood and hormones, and grew.
On the other hand, fetuses injected with the toxin became weakened and developed into epsilons.
The shelves, humming and rattling softly, crawled imperceptibly through weeks of endlessly repeated developmental stages into the embryo maturation chamber, where the babies, fresh from their bottles, let out their first cries of terror and astonishment.
--- p.229~230
“Are you happy living as slaves?” the savage was saying as they entered the hospital.
His face was flushed and his eyes sparkled with passion and anger.
“Do you like living like babies? Yes, babies.
“While crying and vomiting,” the savage added, furious at their bestial stupidity, and hurling insults at those he had come to rescue.
His insulting words bounced off their hardened stupidity, like turtle shells, and they stared at him with blank, dull eyes, an expression of dull, spiteful discontent.
“Yes, while I was at it!” he practically shouted.
Feelings of sadness, regret, pity, and duty were absorbed into a powerful and overwhelming hatred for the subhuman monsters who gathered around him.
"Don't you want to be free and human? Don't you even understand what humanity and freedom are?" --- p.323
“The world is now stable.
People are happy, they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get.
They are happy because they all live well, are safe, never get sick, have no fear of death, and know nothing about aging or lust.
They are not bothered by their mother or father, have no strong feelings for their wife, children, or lover, and are virtually forbidden to do anything other than what they have been taught to do.
And if anything goes wrong, Soma is waiting.
You threw it out the window in the name of freedom, Mr. Savage.
“Freedom!” he laughed.
"To expect Deltas to understand freedom! And now to expect them to understand Othello! How naive of a young man!"
--- p.333~334
Publisher's Review
A classic in the literature of shocking future civilization criticism,
The harsh future vision in "Brave New World" is already in progress!
Aldous Huxley's prophetic novel Brave New World is one of the most profound and penetrating explorations of the future in this century.
This story, which depicts life in a modern-day Garden of Eden, pictorially depicts a modern civilized society where the concepts of freedom and morality have become worn-out rags, and warns of the dangers inherent in it.
We must not forget Huxley's eloquent declaration of humanity, which he criticized with pain and defended with nobility.
-「Saturday Review」
Aldous Huxley, who left behind an outstanding modern classic depicting a bleak future world, was a British writer from a prestigious family and was known not only for his extensive knowledge but also for his sharp intellect, elegant writing style, and sometimes cynical sense of humor.
His 1932 work, Brave New World, is considered one of the most profound and sharp explorations of the future in this century.
Brave New World is a work depicting a future civilized world where science has reached its peak of development, governing and controlling all aspects of society, and even controlling human birth and freedom.
It sharply satirizes a future world that has lost its humanity, while also warning and criticizing the arrogance of humans who overstep the bounds of the divine.
Also, like George Orwell's '1984', it raises questions about human freedom and morality through shocking predictions of the future.
For those of us who already live in a world where the prelude to the future constructed by humans in Brave New World is underway, it is of great interest to see how Huxley's satirical yet ruthless vision of the future will become a reality in the future.
Huxley's chilling vision of the future is no longer fantasy.
This is a work that deals with the crisis that humanity faces, using human subjects as its subject matter.
In Brave New World, the tragic process of a totalitarian state destroying humanity is vividly revealed, the paradox that utopia is doomed to destruction is highlighted, and the principle of inverse proportionality between the development of civilization and the decline of humanity is presented.
Now, the nightmare that Huxley set up in Brave New World is rushing towards us at a rapid pace.
With the development of modern scientific civilization, we are gradually losing our individuality and personality. Where is the world headed?
In a world where humans are designed and controlled from the womb to the tomb,
How human is a human?
In a world where family ties have disappeared, where people are trained to become accustomed to even death, humans are deprived of the bare minimum of dignity, human value, and even the freedom to think for themselves.
The people here are divided into five classes from birth: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon, and humanity is mass-produced in a 'custom' manner.
Dozens of identical twins are born from a single egg, and through endless sleep learning and brainwashing, they unquestioningly submit to their predetermined fate.
They don't age, they have irresponsible, immoral, and promiscuous sexual relationships, and they don't feel mentally lonely.
For them, there is only pleasure and satisfaction.
Outside of regular work hours, the entertainment is jam-packed with simple stimuli, and whenever they feel bad or experience pain, they always experience instant pleasure through a virtual drug called soma.
Soma, like a drug, takes over people's minds and takes away their ability to think.
Because in this perfect utopia, everyone is happy.
Then one day, John, a 'savage' who was living in a primitive area (Reservation) isolated from the New World, is accidentally invited here.
He is amazed by the advanced scientific civilization he sees for the first time and the world where everything is perfectly designed, but he gradually becomes disillusioned with the sight of people who are like 'idiots' controlled by a few rulers and tamed by manipulated happiness.
Eventually, he despairs of civilization and returns to the primitive land, frustrated.
“But I don’t want comfort.
I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, and I want goodness.
“I want sin.”
“You are essentially asking for the right to be unhappy,” said Mustapha Mond.
The savage spoke defiantly.
“I will claim my right to be unhappy.”
“The right to grow old and ugly and impotent, the right to suffer from syphilis and cancer, the right to suffer from want of food, the right to be covered with lice, the right to live in constant fear of what tomorrow will bring, the right to suffer from typhoid fever, and the right to suffer from all kinds of unspeakable pain.” There was silence for a long time.
“I ask for all such things,” said the savage at last.
＿ Main text, pages 362-363
Huxley compares two worlds, the utopian world and the primitive world, through the savage young man John, and juxtaposes our present and future.
It offers a sharp critique of modern scientific civilization, which aims only for maximum efficiency and development, and depicts a terrifying future that is just around the corner.
So, what is the true ideal for humanity, and what must we do to achieve it? Finding the answer remains a crucial task for us.
Master of translation, Ahn Jung-hyo
The latest complete translation and revised edition, exclusively published
This 『Brave New World』 is the latest complete translation by Ahn Jung-hyo, the author of 『White War』, 『The Silver Horse Never Comes』, 『The Life of a Hollywood Kid』, and 『Ahn Jung-hyo's Dictionary of Mistranslations』, and a master translator. It minimizes mistranslations and faithfully follows the expressions of the original text, and with more detailed explanations and excellent literary expressions, it provides the true pleasure of reading a classic work.
The harsh future vision in "Brave New World" is already in progress!
Aldous Huxley's prophetic novel Brave New World is one of the most profound and penetrating explorations of the future in this century.
This story, which depicts life in a modern-day Garden of Eden, pictorially depicts a modern civilized society where the concepts of freedom and morality have become worn-out rags, and warns of the dangers inherent in it.
We must not forget Huxley's eloquent declaration of humanity, which he criticized with pain and defended with nobility.
-「Saturday Review」
Aldous Huxley, who left behind an outstanding modern classic depicting a bleak future world, was a British writer from a prestigious family and was known not only for his extensive knowledge but also for his sharp intellect, elegant writing style, and sometimes cynical sense of humor.
His 1932 work, Brave New World, is considered one of the most profound and sharp explorations of the future in this century.
Brave New World is a work depicting a future civilized world where science has reached its peak of development, governing and controlling all aspects of society, and even controlling human birth and freedom.
It sharply satirizes a future world that has lost its humanity, while also warning and criticizing the arrogance of humans who overstep the bounds of the divine.
Also, like George Orwell's '1984', it raises questions about human freedom and morality through shocking predictions of the future.
For those of us who already live in a world where the prelude to the future constructed by humans in Brave New World is underway, it is of great interest to see how Huxley's satirical yet ruthless vision of the future will become a reality in the future.
Huxley's chilling vision of the future is no longer fantasy.
This is a work that deals with the crisis that humanity faces, using human subjects as its subject matter.
In Brave New World, the tragic process of a totalitarian state destroying humanity is vividly revealed, the paradox that utopia is doomed to destruction is highlighted, and the principle of inverse proportionality between the development of civilization and the decline of humanity is presented.
Now, the nightmare that Huxley set up in Brave New World is rushing towards us at a rapid pace.
With the development of modern scientific civilization, we are gradually losing our individuality and personality. Where is the world headed?
In a world where humans are designed and controlled from the womb to the tomb,
How human is a human?
In a world where family ties have disappeared, where people are trained to become accustomed to even death, humans are deprived of the bare minimum of dignity, human value, and even the freedom to think for themselves.
The people here are divided into five classes from birth: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon, and humanity is mass-produced in a 'custom' manner.
Dozens of identical twins are born from a single egg, and through endless sleep learning and brainwashing, they unquestioningly submit to their predetermined fate.
They don't age, they have irresponsible, immoral, and promiscuous sexual relationships, and they don't feel mentally lonely.
For them, there is only pleasure and satisfaction.
Outside of regular work hours, the entertainment is jam-packed with simple stimuli, and whenever they feel bad or experience pain, they always experience instant pleasure through a virtual drug called soma.
Soma, like a drug, takes over people's minds and takes away their ability to think.
Because in this perfect utopia, everyone is happy.
Then one day, John, a 'savage' who was living in a primitive area (Reservation) isolated from the New World, is accidentally invited here.
He is amazed by the advanced scientific civilization he sees for the first time and the world where everything is perfectly designed, but he gradually becomes disillusioned with the sight of people who are like 'idiots' controlled by a few rulers and tamed by manipulated happiness.
Eventually, he despairs of civilization and returns to the primitive land, frustrated.
“But I don’t want comfort.
I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, and I want goodness.
“I want sin.”
“You are essentially asking for the right to be unhappy,” said Mustapha Mond.
The savage spoke defiantly.
“I will claim my right to be unhappy.”
“The right to grow old and ugly and impotent, the right to suffer from syphilis and cancer, the right to suffer from want of food, the right to be covered with lice, the right to live in constant fear of what tomorrow will bring, the right to suffer from typhoid fever, and the right to suffer from all kinds of unspeakable pain.” There was silence for a long time.
“I ask for all such things,” said the savage at last.
＿ Main text, pages 362-363
Huxley compares two worlds, the utopian world and the primitive world, through the savage young man John, and juxtaposes our present and future.
It offers a sharp critique of modern scientific civilization, which aims only for maximum efficiency and development, and depicts a terrifying future that is just around the corner.
So, what is the true ideal for humanity, and what must we do to achieve it? Finding the answer remains a crucial task for us.
Master of translation, Ahn Jung-hyo
The latest complete translation and revised edition, exclusively published
This 『Brave New World』 is the latest complete translation by Ahn Jung-hyo, the author of 『White War』, 『The Silver Horse Never Comes』, 『The Life of a Hollywood Kid』, and 『Ahn Jung-hyo's Dictionary of Mistranslations』, and a master translator. It minimizes mistranslations and faithfully follows the expressions of the original text, and with more detailed explanations and excellent literary expressions, it provides the true pleasure of reading a classic work.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: June 12, 2015
- Page count, weight, size: 400 pages | 424g | 131*187*20mm
- ISBN13: 9788973814725
- ISBN10: 8973814729
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