Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) este nepotul celebrului naturalist si eseist Thomas Henry Huxley si fratele renumitului naturalist Julian Huxley. In 1908 isi incepe studiile la Eton si, dupa o intrerupere de doi ani (pricinuita de o grava afectiune oculara), le continua la Balliol College, Oxford, universitate unde va si preda literatura pentru scurt timp. Dupa razboi Huxley semneaza cronici literare si plastice in mai multe reviste, printre care Atheneum, condusa de criticul John Middleton Murry, si Westminster Gazette. In 1916 publica volumul de versuri Roata in flacari. Debutul in proza se produce patru ani mai tarziu, in 1920, cu un volum de nuvele, Limbo, iar in anul urmator apare primul sau roman, Galben de crom. Admirator al literaturii franceze (numeroasele cronici literare si recenzii publicate o dovedesc pe deplin), Aldous Huxley s-a modelat ca scriitor gratie lecturilor din operele lui Diderot, Voltaire, Baudelaire, Proust, Gide ori Anatole France. Avea o mare admiratie pentru Shakespeare si, dintre contemporani, pentru prietenul sau D.H. Lawrence. Autor prolific, lui Huxley i-au aparut de-a lungul vietii peste patruzeci de volume, cele mai semnificative scrise in deceniile al treilea si al patrulea ale secolului trecut. |
The Burning Wheel, 1916;
The Defeat of Youth, 1918;
Limbo, 1920;
Crome Yellow, 1921;
Antic Hay, 1923;
On the Margin, 1923;
Along the Road, 1925;
Those Barren Leaves, 1925;
Jesting Pilate, 1926;
Essays New and Old, 1926;
Proper Studies, 1927;
Point Counter Point, 1928;
Do What You Will, 1929;
Holy Face, and Other Essays, 1929;
Brief Candles, 1930;
The World of Light, 1931;
Music at Night, 1931;
The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, 1932 (ed.);
Brave New World, 1932;
Beyond the Mexique Bay, 1934;
Eyeless in Gaza, 1936;
The Olive Tree, and Other Essays, 1936;
Stories, Essays, and Poems, 1937;
Ends and Means, 1937;
An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism, 1937 (ed.);
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, 1938;
Time Must Have a Stop, 1944;
The Perennial Philosophy, 1946 (ed.);
Ape and Essence, 1948;
The Perennial Philosophy, 1948;
Gioconda Smile, 1948;
Themes and Variations, 1950;
The Devils of Loudon, 1952;
The Doors of Perceprion, 1954;
Adonis and the Alphabet, 1956;
Collected Short Stories, 1957;
The World of Aldous Huxley, 1957;
Brave New World Revisited, 1958;
Collected Essays, 1959;
On Art and Artist, 1960;
Selected Essays, 1961;
Literature and Science, 1963;
Letters of Aldous Huxley, 1969;
The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley, 1970;
Huxley and God, 1992;
Hearst Essays, 1994;
Between the Wars, 1994;
The Hidden Huxley, 1994. |
