Those Barren Leaves

Par : Aldous Huxley

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  • Nombre de pages452
  • PrésentationBroché
  • Poids0.58 kg
  • Dimensions14,8 cm × 21,0 cm × 2,4 cm
  • ISBN979-10-418-0723-9
  • EAN9791041807239
  • Date de parution15/06/2023
  • ÉditeurCulturea

Résumé

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo : Irene, her young niece ; Ms.
Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist ; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui ; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life ; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment ; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister.
As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics : love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity-these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley's era. His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition.
The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it's Italy. As the vacation winds down, we're left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture-the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important.
We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo : Irene, her young niece ; Ms.
Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist ; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui ; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life ; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment ; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister.
As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics : love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity-these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley's era. His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition.
The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it's Italy. As the vacation winds down, we're left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture-the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley est né en 1894 dans une famille de l'élite intellectuelle britannique. Ce poète, journaliste, critique d'art, scénariste et romancier publie son premier livre à 25 ans. Très préoccupé par les bouleversements que connaît la civilisation occidentale, il écrit dans les années 1930 de grands romans, qui sont une peinture satirique du monde à cette époque. En 1931 paraît Le Meilleur des mondes, dans lequel il imagine une société contrôlant les individus par le clonage. Ce livre mondialement célèbre, chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature d'anticipation, a donné ses premières lettres de noblesse à la science-fiction. En 1959, l'Académie américaine des arts et des lettres décerne à Aldous Huxley le " Award of Merit for the Novel ". Il meurt à Hollywood en 1963.
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