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Brave New World

Sonstiges

Huxley, Aldous (Verfasser/-in) DNB

Vintage Books

1994

978-0-09-947746-4

fantastisch
Utopie
Literatur

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernhard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, bernard has an ill-definded longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...