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Since its publication in 1920, Aldous Huxley’s „Limbo” has delighted readers with the ironic observations that would become a trademark of Huxley’s later work. Huxley’s first collection of short stories, contains seven visionary and satirical tales, which introduces themes that will go on to form the basis of his entire works. It includes: „Farcical History of Richard Greenow”, „Happily Ever After”, „Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers”, „Happy Families” (play), „Cynthia”, „The Bookshop” and „The Death of Lully”. The events and the protagonists of these stories, with their personalities…mehr
Since its publication in 1920, Aldous Huxley’s „Limbo” has delighted readers with the ironic observations that would become a trademark of Huxley’s later work. Huxley’s first collection of short stories, contains seven visionary and satirical tales, which introduces themes that will go on to form the basis of his entire works. It includes: „Farcical History of Richard Greenow”, „Happily Ever After”, „Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers”, „Happy Families” (play), „Cynthia”, „The Bookshop” and „The Death of Lully”. The events and the protagonists of these stories, with their personalities falling between the explicit and the elusive, are also rich in parallels and points in common with the life of their author. In „The Death of Lully” a woman is struck by breast cancer, the disease that killed the young author’s mother to whom he was very close; and suicide as that of his brother, recurs in „Eupompus Gave Splendour To Art By Numbers”.
Aldous Leonard Huxley nasceu em 26 de julho de 1894, na Inglaterra. Em 1916, publica seu primeiro livro, uma coletânea de poemas. A partir de 1921, sua reputação literária se estabelece, através de Crome Yellow. Em seguida, escreve Antic Hay (1923), Folhas inúteis (1925) e Contraponto (1928), sátiras onde analisa de modo espirituoso e implacável os dissabores do mundo moderno. No período anterior à Segunda Guerra Mundial, sua obra adquire tons mais sombrios, incluindo o célebre romance Admirável Mundo Novo (1932), antiutopia que descreve a desumanizada sociedade do futuro, e Sem Olhos em Gaza (1936), uma novela pacifista. Em 1937, deixa a Europa e se muda para a Califórnia. Além de ensaios sobre assuntos tanto culturais quanto religiosos, em que se nota a forte influência da mística oriental, Huxley publicou O Tempo Deve Parar (1944), O Macaco e a Essência (1949), A Ilha (1962) e As Portas da Percepção (1954), onde descreve suas experiências com a mescalina. Aldous Huxley faleceu em 22 de novembro de 1963, curiosamente mesmo dia do assassinato de John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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