Le meilleur des mondes

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar 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. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined 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...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.Biographie de l'auteurAldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel,Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed byAntic Hay (1923),Those Barren Leaves (1925) andPoint Counter Point (1928) – bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found inAlong the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous workBrave New World (published in 1932, this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novelEyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such asMusic at Night (1931) andEnds and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West br