Now More Than EverUniversity of Texas Press, 2000 - 123 էջ Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever. Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time. Huxley's protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose schemes for controlling the means of production drive him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning and the rationalization of Britain's industrial base. This volume contains the full text of Now More Than Ever, which was believed to be lost until 1976, when a copy was found at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin. A "thinker's play" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley's intellectual life. |
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... writing , " Huxley remarked : ... has been the desire to clarify a point of view . Or , rather , the desire to clarify a point of view to myself . I do not write for my readers ; in fact , I don't like thinking about my readers ... I am ...
... writing a play when their notions could be far more subtly , accurately , and truly expressed in a novel or an essay.35 But even though Huxley was fully conversant with the pitfalls of the “ drama of ideas , ” he did not possess the ...
... writing the play much too crudely and far too swiftly . In the revised version , Joan is on the stage alone when the ... writer is explained by the fact that he left his usual one behind in New York before embarking on a sea journey to ...