Aldous Huxley, the Seer of Literature

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"Maybe this world is the hell of another world." -Aldous Huxley
 Aldous Huxley could not attend World War I, because of a problem in his eyes. Instead of this, he went on a journey in his inner world. He was always interested in science, as well as mystcism and the spiritual world.

  In the meantime, the world was dragging in more misery day by day. The hunger which came with the war was catastrophic. This situation played a big role in his dystopic novels.
 Jim Morrison read Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception. Inspired by the book, the band called The Doors. He left his mark on music and a generation in a poetic style. 





 When the discovery of a hallucinative drug called LSD was heard in 1968, he tried it immediately. 
This drug changed his outlook on the world. After that, Huxley introduced Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, to LSD and mescaline and pioneered his crazy style.





 One year after he lost his wife from cancer in 1955, Huxley learned that he had cancer too. As the disease progressed rapidly, he completed his utopia "The Island." When he created the Island, he was a man who has followed the Cold War that followed the I. World War, how the science can be used to destroy humanity in the hands of the tyrannical rulers, the rapid increase of the world's population, the slavery of the human being without a wink of tech. Yet he knew how to turn this despair into a good hope in Island.


 He was one of the most important representatives of the "beat" generation and dystopic novel understanding that left her mark on a period with her generation, fashion, music and lifestyle.




"The dictatorship I have created in my imagined future world is much softer than the dictator that Orwell would then portray perfectly." -Aldous Huxley



 When Huxley wrote the book, Hitler and his nightmare had not yet begun. On November 22 1963, Huxley left this world. Ironically, his death was overshadowed by two other reports. The same day, America was shaken by the news of John Kennedy's assassination. Before the end of the day, the death of the famous Irish writer C.S.Lewis fell into the world of literature as a bomb. This interesting coincidence immortalized many years later in Peter Kreeft's book "Between Heaven and Hell: Beyond death, dialogue with John Kennedy, C.S.Lewis and Aldous Huxley".




"Nobody contributed more than Huxley did to the modern novel being equipped with a brain." -Anthony Burgess







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