Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley /ˈhʌksli/ (26 Juli 1894– 22 November 1963) adalah penulis, filsuf Inggris, dan anggota keluarga Huxley yang cukup terkenal.

Aldous Huxley (1954).

Aldous Huxley
Lahir	Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-07-26)26 Juli 1894 Godalming, Surrey, Inggris
Meninggal	22 November 1963(1963-11-22) (umur 69) Los Angeles, California, Amerika Serikat
Pemakaman	Compton, Surrey, Inggris
Pekerjaan	Penulis
Almamater	Eton College Balliol College, Oxford
Genres	Fiksi Non-fiksi
Karya terkenal	Brave New World Island Point Counter Point The Doors of Perception The Perennial Philosophy
Pasangan	Maria Nys ​ (m. 1919⁠–⁠1955)​ Laura Huxley ​ (m. 1956⁠–⁠1963)​
Tanda tangan

Dia dikenal atas novel-novelnya seperti Brave New World yang berlatar di London era distopia , buku nonfiksinya seperti The Doors of Perception yang menjabarkan pengalaman setelah mengonsumsi obat psikedelik, dan serangkaian esainya, serta novel dengan tema serupa berjudul Island (1962).^[1] Pada awal kariernya, Huxley menjadi penyunting majalah Oxford Poetry dan menulis cerpen dan puisi. Ia kemudian menulis catatan perjalanan, cerita dan naskah film. Ia menghabiskan separuh akhir hidupnya di Los Angeles, Amerika Serikat, sejak 1937 sampai meninggal dunia. Pada tahun 1962, setahun sebelum meninggal, ia diangkat sebagai Companion of Literature oleh Royal Society of Literature.^[2]

Huxley adalah seorang humanis, pasifis, dan satiris. Huxley kemudian tertarik dengan hal-hal spiritual seperti parapsikologi dan mistisisme filosofis,^[3][4] khususnya universalisme.^[5] Menjelang akhir hidupnya, Huxley diakui secara luas sebagai salah satu intelek berpengaruh pada masa itu.^[6]

Penghargaan

• 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (untuk After Many a Summer Dies the Swan)
• 1959 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit (untuk Brave New World).
• 1962 Companion of Literature (Royal Society of Literature)^[7]

Adaptasi film

• 1968 Point Counter Point (miniseri BBC besutan Simon Raven)
• 1971 The Devils (The Devils of Loudun diadaptasi oleh Ken Russell)
• 1980 Brave New World (adaptasi TV A.S.)
• 1998 Brave New World (adaptasi TV A.S.)

Karya pilihan

Novel

• 1921 Crome Yellow
• 1923 Antic Hay
• 1925 Those Barren Leaves
• 1928 Point Counter Point
• 1932 Brave New World
• 1936 Eyeless in Gaza
• 1939 After Many a Summer
• 1944 Time Must Have a Stop
• 1948 Ape and Essence
• 1955 The Genius and the Goddess
• 1962 Island

Koleksi cerita pendek

• 1920 Limbo
• 1922 Mortal Coils
• 1924 Little Mexican (judul A.S.: Young Archimedes)
• 1926 Two or Three Graces
• 1930 Brief Candles
• 1944 Collected Short Stories
• Jacob's Hands: A Fable (ditulis bersama Christopher Isherwood; ditemukan 1997)

Koleksi puisi

• 1916 Oxford Poetry (editor majalah)
• 1916 The Burning Wheel
• 1917 Jonah
• 1918 The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
• 1920 Leda
• 1925 Selected Poems
• 1929 Arabia Infelix and Other Poems
• 1931 The Cicadas and Other Poems
• 1971 Collected Poems

Koleksi esai

• 1923 On the Margin
• 1925 Along the Road
• 1926 Essays New and Old
• 1927 Proper Studies
• 1929 Do What You Will
• 1930 Vulgarity in Literature
• 1931 Music at Night
• 1932 Texts and Pretexts
• 1936 The Olive Tree and other essays
• 1937 Ends and Means
• 1940 Words and their Meanings
• 1942 The Art of Seeing
• 1945 The Perennial Philosophy
• 1946 Science, Liberty and Peace
• 1950 Themes and Variations
• 1954 The Doors of Perception
• 1956 Heaven and Hell
• 1956 Adonis and the Alphabet (judul A.S.: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow)
• 1958 Collected Essays
• 1958 Brave New World Revisited
• 1963 Literature and Science
• 1977 Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931–63
• 1977 The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959

Naskah

• Brave New World
• Ape and Essence
• 1940 Pride and Prejudice (kolaborasi)
• 1943 Madame Curie (kolaborasi)
• 1944 Jane Eyre (kolaborasi dengan John Houseman)
• 1947 A Woman's Vengeance
• 1950 Prelude to Fame
• 1951 Naskah asli (ditolak) film animasi Disney, Alice in Wonderland ^[8]
• 1971 Eyeless in Gaza (miniseri BBC bekerja sama dengan Robin Chapman)^[9]

Buku perjalanan

• 1925 Along The Road: Notes and essays of a tourist
• 1926 Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey
• 1934 Beyond the Mexique Bay: A Traveller's Journey

Fiksi anak-anak

• 1967 The Crows of Pearblossom

Drama

• 1924 The Discovery (diadaptasi dari Francis Sheridan)
• 1931 The World of Light
• 1948 Mortal Coils – A Play (versi pentas The Gioconda Smile)
• 1958 The Genius and the Goddess (versi pentas, ditulis bersama Betty Wendel)
• 1967 The Ambassador of Captripedia
• 2000 Now More Than Ever (lakon lama yang ditemukan kembali oleh Departemen Sastra Inggris, Universitas Münster, Jerman)

Artikel di Vedanta and the West

• • 1941  "Distractions"
  • "Distractions II"
  • "Action and Contemplation"
  • "An Appreciation"
  • "The Yellow Mustard"
  • "Lines"
  • "Some Reflections of the Lord's Prayer"
• • 1942  "Reflections of the Lord's Prayer"
  • "Reflections of the Lord's Prayer II"
  • "Words and Reality"
  • "Readings in Mysticism"
  • "Man and Reality"
  • "The Magical and the Spiritual"
• • 1943  "Religion and Time"
  • "Idolatry"
  • "Religion and Temperament"
  • "A Note on the Bhagavatam"
  • "Seven Meditations"
• • 1944  "On a Sentence From Shakespeare"
  • "The Minimum Working Hypothesis"
  • "From a Notebook"
  • "The Philosophy of the Saints"
• • 1945  "That Art Thou"
  • "That Art Thou II"
  • "The Nature of the Ground"
  • "The Nature of the Ground II"
  • "God in the World"
• • 1946  "Origins and Consequences of Some Contemporary Thought-Patterns"
  • "The Sixth Patriarch"
  • "Some Reflections on Time"
• • 1947  "Reflections on Progress"
  • "Further Reflections on Progress"
  • "William Law"
  • "Notes on Zen"
• • 1948  "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"
  • "A Note on Gandhi"
• 1949  "Art and Religion
• 1950  "Foreword to an Essay on the Indian Philosophy of Peace"
• • 1952  "A Note on Enlightenment"
  • "Substitutes for Liberation"
• • 1954  "The Desert"
  • "A Note on Patanjali"
• 1955  "Who Are We?"
• • 1956  "Foreword to the Supreme Doctrine"
  • "Knowledge and Understanding"
• 1957  "The "Inanimate" is Alive"
• 1960  "Symbol and Immediate Experience"

Rekaman suara di CD

• 1955 Knowledge and Understanding ^[10][11]
• 1955 Who Are We? ^[11][12]

Lainnya

• 1936 Pacifism and Philosophy
• 1937 An Encyclopedia of Pacifism (editor)
• 1941 Grey Eminence
• 1953 The Devils of Loudun
• 1962 The Politics of Ecology
• 2007 Selected Letters

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