Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic
outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious
terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the
previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever. Written in 1932-1933
just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a response to the
social, economic, and political upheavals of its time. Huxley's
protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose schemes for
controlling the means of production drive him to swindling and finally
to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in
free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic
planning and the rationalization of Britain's industrial base. This
volume contains the full text of Now More Than Ever, which was
believed to be lost until 1976, when a copy was found at the Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at
Austin. A "thinker's play" that has never been produced on stage, it
is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings
and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer.
The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary
readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley's
intellectual life.
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ISBN
9780292735224
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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