Huxley Biography

Oldos Huxley Oldos Leonard Huxley English. The author of the famous Antiutopia novel “On the Widden New World”. Both in the paternal and maternal lines of Haxli belonged to the British cultural elite, which gave a number of outstanding scientists, writers, artists. His father is the writer Leonard Huxley, the paternal grandfather is biologist Thomas Henry Haxli; On the maternal line, Haxli is the great -grandson of the historian and teacher Thomas Arnold and the grandchildren of the writer Matthew Arnold.

Brother Huxley Julian and the impatient brother of Andrew were famous biologists. Huxley's mother died when Oldos was 13 years old. Three years later, he fell ill with eye inflammation and subsequently his vision worsened significantly. In this regard, he was exempted from military service during the First World War. Huxley wrote his first novel, which was not published at the age of 17.

He studied literature at the Balliole College in Oxford. At the age of twenty, Huxley decides to choose writing as a profession. In his novels, we are talking about the loss of humanity by society in the process of technological progress, the anti -utopia “On the marvelous new world! He also touched pacifist topics. In the year, Haxli moves to Los Angeles, California, along with his guru Gerald Gerd, hoping that the California climate will improve his worsening vision.

It was here that its main creative period begins, for which a new line was a more detailed consideration of the human essence. Huxley meets in G. under the influence of the latter, he turns to various teachings of wisdom and is engaged in mysticism.

The accumulated knowledge is visible in its subsequent “The Perennial Philosophy” novels, the most clearly in the years “AFTER MANYA A SUMMER ...” and also in the work “Time Must Have A Stop”. In he agrees to participate in an experiment conducted by Humphrey Osmond Humphry Osmond. The purpose of this experiment was to study Mescalin’s influence on human consciousness.

Subsequently, in the correspondence with the Osmond, the word “psychedelik” was used for the first time to describe the influence of Mescalin. The essays “Doors of Perception” “The Doors of Perception” and “Paradise and Hell” “Heaven and Hell” describe the observations and the course of the experiment, which the author repeated about ten times until his death.

So, in his last novel, “Island”, he described a positive utopia, which was diametrically opposite to his anti -utopia “On the Widest New World” Brave New World. Huxley died in G. Before his death, he asked him to make him intramuscular injection of LSD - ICG. Despite the warnings of doctors, his wife fulfilled his request. Shortly before his death in a fire in his own house, all his manuscripts burned.

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